Moira may mean portion or share on the distribution of booty ( ίση μοίρα, isi moira, " equal booty "), portion in life, lot, destiny, ( μοίρα έθηκαν αθάνατοι, moiran ethikan athanatoi, " the immortals fixed the destiny ") death-moros-( μοίρα θανάτοιο, moira thanatoio, " destiny of death "), portion of the distributed land., The word is also used for something which is meet and right ( κατά μοίραν, kata moiran, " according to fate, in order, rightly ")

By extension Moira is the portion in glory, happiness, mishappenings, death ( μοίρα θανάτοιο: destiny of death ) which are unexpected events.

A psychic representation of Moira was seen as an active portion of Xavier's consciousness as he worked on rebuilding Genosha.

The Moira River begins at Jordan Lake just south of the settlement of Gunter in the more southerly Tudor portion of the township of Tudor and Cashel at an elevation of.

The ancient Greek writers might call this power Moira or Ananke, and even the gods could not alter what was ordained.

The ancient representation of the goddess, is perhaps a torch-bearing figure, but she was also depicted holding a spindle, as the representation of Moira ( fate ).

* Moira ( military ), a Greek military formation

The notion of a universal principle of natural order is by no means unique to the Vedas, and Ṛta has been compared to similar ideas in other cultures, such as Ma ' at in Ancient Egyptian religion, Moira and the Logos in Greek paganism, and the Tao.

* Moira ( Greek paganism )

One of the most recognizable songs in Columns is called Clotho, presumably after the Greek Moira of the same name, related to the Greek flavor of some of the game's art.

The Greek writers named this power Moira, or Ananke, and even the gods could not alter what was ordained.

The first refers to the member of the three Moirai who cuts the threads of life of all beings in Greek mythology ; the second to the river of the dead, also in Greek mythology ; and the last refers to the Moira who allots the correct amount of life to a being.

Moira (, pronounced míra, plural ) is a Greek term for a military formation.

Homer uses the word Moira which is later personified indicating the destiny, but it seems that originally the word included the " ascertainment " or " proof ".

The sacristy at Bobbio possesses a portion of the skull of the saint, his knife, wooden cup, bell, and an ancient water vessel, formerly containing sacred relics and said to have been given to him by St. Gregory.

The portion of the Greek Arithmetica that survived, however, was, like all ancient Greek texts transmitted to the early modern world, copied by, and thus known to, medieval Byzantine scholars.

Saint Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages, is widely recognized as being the author of the first known encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae or Origines ( around 630 ), in which he compiled a sizable portion of the learning available at his time, both ancient and modern.

The area has undergone a number of archaeological excavations in recent years, though the excavated area covers only a small portion of the ancient dēmos.

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

In the northeastern portion of the city there are the remains of ancient Elymian and Phoenician walls indicating different stages of settlement and occupation in antiquity.

Many archaeological sites and ancient ruins are located inside or around the town, as the prehistoric step pyramid of Monte d ' Accoddi, a large number of Nuraghes and Domus de Janas ( Fairy Houses ), the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, the ruins of a Roman villa discovered under San Nicholas Cathedral, and a portion of the ancient road that connected the Latin city of Turrys Lybissonis with Caralis.

There are, however, especially in the southern portion, ancient and non-volcanic rocks.

Elm is also prized by bowyers ; of the ancient bows found in Europe, a large portion of them are elm.

One author writes about the geology of the nation: " Bahrein lies on a portion of the ancient Tethys Ocean geosynclinal belt represented today by the Arabian Gulf.

The "- vent " portion of the name probably refers to a market-place and is a common element in ancient place names.

By the 15th century Moscow principality ( or Muscovy ) established its sovereignty over a large portion of ancient Rus territory, including Novgorod, Pskov, and parts of Chernigov and Pereyaslavl principalities.

Iwa ( Character ) is one of or perhaps the most important human endeavor taught within Ifa literary corpus and every Ifa stanza ( ancient poetic verse ) has one portion dedicated to the issue of teaching the Iwa ( Character / Behaviour ) that Ifa supports.

One could interpret these maps as a flat wheel or disc, but most were intended to represent only a portion of the sphere-known world-just as a modern flat map of Europe or Africa is intended to represent only part of the planet " and " In the ancient and medieval world the term " antipodes " may mean lands on the opposite side on the planet or, more commonly, " human inhabitants " of lands on the other side of the planet.

This includes establishment of mathas. Sankaracharya is held to be by some hagiographers to be an divine portion of sree sasta also known as Ayyanar, whom ancient documents refer to as a procreation of Lord Haran ( Lord Siva ) and Tirumaal ( Maha Vishnu ).

All that remains of the ancient basilica are the interior portion of the apse with the triumphal arch.

May it be your will, O my God and God of my fathers, that the Temple be rebuilt speedily in our days, and give us our portion in your Torah, and there we will worship you with reverence as in ancient days and former years.

By the 8th century, the territory of ancient Éile had broken up into a number of petty kingdoms: the O ' Carroll occupied the northern portion, the O ' Spillanes held Ileagh, the Eóganacht Chaisil had annexed Middle Third while the O ' Fogartys held what is now the barony of Eliogarty.

However, a portion of the region lies within the Olympic National Park and contains ancient forests.

Whilst in every other European country except the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and England the ancient popular representation by estates was about to disappear altogether, in Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus it grew into an integral portion of the Constitution of Sweden.

Of Roman remains little is preserved ; there is, for example, no sufficient proof that the cathedral rests upon an ancient temple of Cybele though the regular ground plan of the central portion, a square of some 1150 yards, betrays its Roman origin, and it may have sprung from a military camp.

These areas include a large portion of the 1. 35 square kilometre Ecclesall Woods, an area of ancient woodland ( it has existed since at least the 16th century ) that is known locally for being a bluebell wood.

The pithecus portion of the name is from the Greek word for " monkey ".

) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as a large portion of any Greek army would need to return to their own professions ( especially in the case of farmers, for example ).

But, soon after the Italian invasion, the Greeks counter-attacked and a sizeable portion of Albania was in Greek hands ( including the cities of Gjirokastër and Korçë ).

However, post-war resettlements from Poland's ethnically and religiously more diverse former eastern territories ( known in Polish as Kresy ) and the eastern parts of post-1945 Poland ( see Operation Vistula ) account for a comparatively large portion of Greek Catholics and Orthodox Christians of mostly Ukrainian and Lemko descent.

After the Second Balkan War, Thessaloniki and the rest of the Greek portion of Macedonia were officially annexed to Greece by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913.

English colon is from Latin colon ( plural cola ), itself from Greek κῶλον " limb, member, portion ", in rhetoric or prosody especially a part or section of a sentence or a rhythmical period of an utterance.

A portion of this pool remains unexcavated, as the land above it is owned by a nearby Greek Orthodox church and is occupied by an orchard known as the King's Garden ( compare ).

The Ancient Greek word moira ( μοίρα ) means a portion or lot of the whole, and is related to meros, " part, lot " and moros, " fate, doom ", Latin meritum, " desert, reward ", English merit, derived from the PIE root *( s ) mer, " to allot, assign ".

A natural whirlpool in the Northern portion of the strait has been linked to the Greek legend of Scylla and Charybdis.

The aphotic zone ( aphotic from Greek prefix + " without light ") is the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no sunlight.

The wording of the Coptic sometimes differs markedly from the earlier Greek Oxyrhynchus texts, the extreme case being that the last portion of logion 30 in the Greek is found at the end of logion 77 in the Coptic.

In chemistry, an enantiomer ( ; from the Greek ἐνάντιος, opposite, and μέρος, part or portion ) is one of two stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other that are

He amassed information from the whole range of Greek literature, carefully appraised the value of the information given, and shows throughout every portion of it rare critical ability and insight.

However other experts, beginning with Ludwig van Jan, point out that despite his familiarity with Greek literature Macrobius was far more familiar with Latin than Greek — as evidenced by his enthusiasm for Vergil and Cicero -- and favor North Africa, which was part of the Latin-speaking portion of the Roman Empire.