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Keres (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the Keres (), singular Ker (), were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of the Fates – collectively known as the Moirai, the names of the three Moirai being Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis. Some later authorities, such as Cicero, called them by a Latin name, Tenebrae, or the Darknesses, and named them daughters of Erebus and Nyx.
==Etymology==
The Greek word Kir or Ker ( κήρ ), means goddess of death, or doom. Homer uses the word with this meaning ''κήρες θανάτοιο'' , "goddesses of death", or meaning "violent death". By extension the word may mean "plague, disease" and in prose "blemish or defect". The relative verb ''κεραίζω'' or ''κείρω'' means "ravage or plunder".〔(Perseus Greek-English Lexicon. κήρες )〕 Sometimes in Homer the words "ker" and moira, have almost similar meaning. The older meaning was probably "destruction of the dead", and Heshychius relates the word with the verb ''κηραινειν'', "decay".〔Nilsson Vol I, p.224〕
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