I131. The thread of life. .15.20.27.-.29.31. (.34.) .35.36.

Every person's life corresponds to a thread, when the thread breaks, the person dies.

Latins, Lamotrek, Easter Island, Ancient Greece, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Czechs, Ukrainians, Ossetians, Elder Edda, Lithuanians, Latvians, (Altaians), Northern Khanty, Southern Selkups, Nganasans, Evenks (the group is not a decree.).

Southern Europe. The Latins [from Carmenta's epithets probably originated three parks (Nona, Decima, Morta), identified with three moiras spinning and cutting the thread of life]: Steerman 1982:290.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Lamotrek [a person is born on earth, but his thread of life stretches to heaven; when a virtuous person dies, his thread is straight, and when a vicious person dies, it is confused; the Oleiguso woman cuts off the thread, and Litafidjor her dreht {spins?} , keeps him in order and gives Eluelap]: Krämer 1937:150-151; Voleai [Alúelap created Voleai; his brother Saulal is the owner of a fish in the guise of a siren; their mother is Límagei; her sister Litó beo sits in the sky, cuts off the thread of a person's life, then he dies]: Krämer 1937:279; Easter Island [a woman Renga has a daughter, Nuahine, she has her first period, her mother brings her food to the cave; in full moon she goes swimming, sees a young man; this is the Month, the brother of the Sun; she agrees to marry him; he takes her to the moon; she is immortal there, but old; spins the threads of people's fate; when breaks the thread, a person dies; you can't look at the full moon]: Fedorova 1978, No. 6.1:76-78.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Hera about Achilles: "Then he will endure everything he was born to him/Straightened his fate: when his mother gave birth to him" (trans. V.V. Veresaeva)]: Hom. Il. XX. 127-128; [Gecuba about Hector: "This is his share /Fate seems to have straightened him powerfully, as I gave birth to him" (trans. V.V. Veresaeva)]: Hom. Il. XXIV. 209-210; [Alkina about Odyssey: "And then let/He fully endure everything that fate and sinister yarns /Straightened him with a thread when his mother gave birth to him" (trans. V.V. Veresaeva)]: Hom. Od. VII. 196-198; [Cullin's Call to Fellow Citizens (first half of the 7th century BC): "Death will only come when we /Moira is stressed..." (per. G. Tsereteli)]: Callin. Fr. 1 (Gent. -Pr.). 8-7 (Gasparov 1999:231); [Alkman (second half of the 7th century BC): "Both the thread is thin and cruel to Ananka!" (per. Vladimir Veresayev)]: PMG 102 (Gasparov 1999:314); [Thebaida by Stesihor (c. 632-556 BC): "If fate sees my son killing my son/If Moira's fate has been hidden like this, /It would be better to see my son kill my son right away life ended with the death of a terrible life" (trans. N. Kazansky)]: Stesich. Theb. 211-213 (Gasparov 1999:318); [an anonymous hymn to Moiram, attributed to Euripides in an ancient anthology, but more reminiscent of choral lyrics from the 5th century BC: "Listen, O Moira! /Under the throne of Zeus/ You sit closest to all the gods! /With Adamant shuttles/ You weave /Immutable, inevitable/Thoughts of all aspirations!" (per. ABOUT. Smyki)]: PMG 100 = 1018a (Gasparov 1999:407); [Erinna's Spinning Wheel (late 4th century BC): "Still, I'm constantly /Purple Shame tears my cheeks and, standing in front of me/So says: "Oh Erinna, here you are mother is sweet/She has lived nineteen years looking at the spinning wheel./Remember that they quickly spin their spindle thread at Moira's, /Remember that Gello's hands hug a strong hug" (trans. ABOUT. Smyki)]: PSI 1090. 35-40 (Gasparov 1999:207); [Pausanias's Description of Hellas (2nd century): "Olen of Lycia, who lived in ancient times and compiled many hymns for business people, wrote, among other things, a hymn in honor of Ilithia; he calls her beautiful there, clearly likening her to the goddess of Destiny; he claims that she was older than Kronos" (trans. S.P. Kondratyeva)]: Paus. VIII. 21.2; Losev 1982 [Moira Lachesis (draws before a person is born), Klotho (spins the thread of life), Atropos ("inevitable")]: 169; Bulgarians: Stoynev 2006 [orisnitsy, Rechinitsa (and other variants) names by region) - three sisters in the house of the Sun on the edge of the world (among immigrants from Aegean Thrace and Asia Minor - one, two or three men); determine a person's fate from birth; mother or midwife can feel their presence; God cannot change their decision; in Macedonia and western Bulgaria, they unwind and cut off the thread of a person's life; fate is imprinted on a person's forehead]: 223-224, 304; Plotnikova, Sedakova 2012 [Sudjenics come to the newborn's house with a pencil, paper, less often with a spindle or balls of thread, while one sujenitsa spins or unwinds the ball, and the other cuts off thread, thus denoting a child's life expectancy]: 200; Macedonians (Maleshevo) [attributes of Sudjenits, mythological female creatures that determine the fate of a child at birth, - spinning wheel and spindle, book, scissors]: Plotnikova, Sedakova 2012:200; Serbs [in fairy tales Fate spins the thread of a newborn's life]: Valentsova 2004:407.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Galicia) [a thread is talking about death]: Sedakova 2012:205; Czechs [Sudjenics come to the newborn's house with a pencil, paper, less often with a spindle or with balls of thread, with one female spinning or unwinding the ball, and the other cutting off the thread, thus denoting the child's life expectancy]: Plotnikova, Sedakova 2012:200.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians (Irons, villages. Edys, 1928) [Nart episode: "At these words, Amzor fell out of his hands with a jug, and Sainag Aldar said: "Let your thread [of life] break off! Is it time for you to think about your wife? How could this pitcher fall out of your hands?"] : Khamitsaeva, Byazirov 1989, No. 116:371.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [verpeya (spinner) spins threads for every baby's life, each ending in a star; when a person dies, his thread breaks and the star goes out and falls]: Narbutt 1835, 1, 71-72 in Grimm 1883 (2) :722 (also in Vaiškūnas 2001 [a star at the end of each such thread] :159); Latvians [Kārta is the goddess of fate; performs together or alternates with Dekla and Laima to form an analogy three parks]: Ivanov, Toporov 1980b:625; Edda (The first song about Helga, Hunding's murderer) [when Helgi was born, "the Norns came /to predict destiny/to the young ruler; /judged that he/would be glorified, /the best of the kings/will be nicknamed. /So the thread of destiny/spun diligently, /that the walls shuddered /in Bralund; /golden thread/brought to the sky -/to the chambers of the moon - /tied it" (trans. A.I. Korsun)]: Elder Edda 1963:73.

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [shamans call Erlik kairakan; this epithet expresses the meaning of "the king is sharp, cutting", i.e. ready to always bring suffering and death; the human soul is called "thread", fragile (" He carved out a thread soul, created"); prayers often call Erlik the father and creator of the human soul ("who carved a soul for life")]: Anokhin 1924:3).

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Kazim, d. Yuilsk) [Kaltash has a staff on which there are many tendon threads, each is human life; each is tied with a knot, some at the beginning of the thread, others at the end; this is the lifespan; K.'s grandson is the spirit of death and diseases, the executor of her will to deliver the souls of the dead in a timely manner to the lower reaches of the Ob, where the world of the dead is located]: Moldanov 1999:66; southern (?) Selkups [Varga-Pakula-cat spider lives in one of the rooms of an underground house; wraps bangos into balls, swallowed by mother earth; all living things are connected to the ground by these threads; when the thread breaks, the person or animal dies]: Pelikh 1998:18; nganasany [a person whose soul is stolen ņilti continues to live for a while until another soul explodes, baţuţ u; baţuţu are threads that descend from the upper world to man and connect him with the creator of the world; according to shaman Duhadiye: "Every person falls from its creator, Ñlta uo top of the thread. I try their strength by sipping, if they are not tight enough and stretched, then I think the patient's breathing is not quite strengthened and I hesitate to cry to the upper spirits. If the threads are tight, like reindeer tendon threads, camlai without hesitation"; these threads gradually thinner when a person is ill and, when they are completely torn, no one can save patient; that's why a shaman pulls up the threads before he hits]: Popov 1976:32; [a person's state of life is determined by the Moon (or Sun); it depends on what thread the Moon throws him, holding the other end of the thread; if the thread is thick, strong, "double, four-wound", the person will live a long time, "he will live 120 years or more"; if he dies young, "he had a thin thread"; pro the deceased baby will be told that his thread was very short; at the time of death, the Moon breaks the thread off the heart and thus stops breathing]: Gracheva 1983:61; Evenks (band not specified) [fate seemed to be an invisible thread to the eye of a mere mortal that goes from the human head to the upper world - yeah buga, right into the hands of the supreme deity; with the help of these threads, the supreme the deity, the main, controls people: where an invisible thread leads, man's life will go there; if the manin cuts off the thread, fate, man dies; when this thread is cut off by the deity accidentally broke off, the shaman, with the permission of the deity, climbed onto the back of his assistant spirit calir (a deer with elk horns and a fish tail) and tied the torn thread of soul and fate with a knot]: Anisimov 1958:60, 62; cf. dolgans [man's supreme soul lives in heaven; an invisible thread stretches from man to it from the ground; with the help of this thread, the higher soul connects to the middle soul that lives inside the human body and which is the source of his life]: Anisimov 1958:62 (with reference to an oral report by A.A. Popov).