species listed as endangered by the U.

Each protected plant so picked, plucked, severed, removed, damaged or carried away shall constitute a separate violation.' At this time, the Atlas only identifies those species listed as threatened or endangered. Part (f) which reads as follows: 'It is a violation for any person, anywhere in the state to pick, pluck, sever, remove, damage by the application of herbicides or defoliants, or carry away, without the consent of the owner, any protected plant.

On such premises, the paper explores the potential correspondences between a structural feature of weaving on the warp-weighted loom, namely the ordering band providing the starting border of the fabric, and the function of the cross-generic prooimion, a compositional and performative principle of orderly beginning, in a sample of archaic Greek poetry.(New York): Rare plants are protected under New York State Environmental Conservation Law section 9-1503. In the case of ancient weaving, that is, literary imagery seems best accessed through technology. In other words, the conceptual import of a given analogy or metaphor is not simply illustrated, but generated by the particular principles of weaving technology at the root of the ‘literal’ element in the figure. Following Hans Blumenberg, we consider metaphor and analogy rather as technological means of expressing concepts. In turn, textile imagery in poetic and philosophical texts should not be considered a mere rhetorical trope. It is argued that ancient textile technology, lying at the etymological and conceptual root of a significant sample of archaic Greek terminology for poetics, generates patterns of thoughts that are relevant for the emergence of early Greek scientific and mathematical discourse. This study arises from an interest in the question of how ancient weaving technology affected early Greek conceits of poetry-making and cosmic order, and how poetic composition as technē resembles the order of nature (the poem is defined as a ‘kosmos of words’). Clotho would spin the thread with a spinning wheel Lachesis would spool and measure the length of the thread and the third and most fearful sister, Atropos, would raise her golden shears to snip the end of the thread. These three 7 female deities-triads are very typical 8-are tasked with regulating the life of mortals as symbolised by a thread. The three Greek Moirai have a Roman counterpart in the Parcae and a Norse counterpart in the Norns 6. As a result, even Zeus feared the Moirai 5. No law or god, however strong he or she might be, could change destiny because the natural balance of the universe cannot be upset. They were the immediate daughters of Night (Nyx) and Darkness (Erebus) 4 and they personified the destiny of each person. The Moirai, or Fates, were the first spinners. From out of the chaos came the original creatures, which gave human form to abstract concepts that frightened human beings as they stood helpless before the immensity of nature. In their account of the creation of the universe 3, everything emerges from chaos.

The Moirai: spinners of destiny In Ancient Greece, the symbology of thread is part of the very mystery of life. This paper sets out to look closely at the mythological figures who spin and to give examples of how they have been represented at different periods in the history of art. Spinning and unravelling are highly symbolic in their own right. The poetic and symbolic language that is used in all traditions when trying to address subjects of great importance is the only one that takes us to the boundary between the human and the divine, the visible and the hidden. As Jean Houston says, 'A myth is something that never was but that is always happening' 2. Mythologies and religions are packed with symbols of this sort that must be disentangled exactly as if we were unravelling a thread. In these tales, spinning, singing and dancing 1 are magical actions that create and sustain life. In many myths and fairy stories, spinning appears as a symbol of creation: it is to fashion the very thread of life.

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