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Monday, 22 February 2010
The Wheel of Fortune
I've just been looking into the idea, in ancient and medieval culture, of the Wheel of Fortune. One of the interesting things I found out is the famous chorus in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, which I always found rather Satanic, is actually a Medieval poem about the Wheel of Fortune.
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O Fortuna was always one of my favorites - I never considered it to be Satanic, so much as a bit brooding and melancholy (which is part of its charm, to me). A description of Fortune in O Fortuna, "rota tu volubilis," or "you whirling wheel," reminds me of the spinning wheel of the Greco-Roman Fates or the Norse / Germanic Norns.
Yes, Klotho the spinner. Also a gene involved in ageing, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotho_(biology)
That was something I definitely didn't know - thank you for posting the URL :-)
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