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One of the reasons religions were created was to answer the large and seemingly answerless questions; where did everything come from, why do accidents and disasters happen what is on the other side of the ocean? The largest and most interesting question to answer, what is the nature of life and death, was answered in an equally interesting way. Life was imagined as a thread, being twined or spun by three women. Upon your birth one would start spinning the thread, throughout your life another would measure it out and, in your last moments, the last would take her knife, cut the line and you would be heard no more. This image has been preserved in many religions in beings such as the Gulses, the Parcae, the Norns, the Werdys and the Moirai.

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One of the reasons religions were created was to answer the large and seemingly answerless questions; where did everything come from, why do accidents and disasters happen what is on the other side of the ocean? The largest and most interesting question to answer, what is the nature of life and death, was answered in an equally interesting way. Life was imagined as a thread, being twined or spun by three women. Upon your birth one would start spinning the thread, throughout your life another would measure it out and, in your last moments, the last would take her knife, cut the line and you would be heard no more. This image has been preserved in many religions in beings such as the Gulses, the Parcae, the Norns, the Werdys and the Moirai.