Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Moros, the Greek god of Doom, which is to say the inevitability of death. He is the divine personage who personifies adages like, "you can't cheat death" and "you can't escape your destiny." In the context of Greek mythology, everyone is doomed, meaning doomed to die. Just as every person is born, so too must every person die; and when a person dies, this isn't something that was dictated by the moment. How a person dies isn't contingent on chance and isn't a permutation of events that, if a person's life was run over and over again in a simulation, could have been ordered differently, played out differently, and culminated to produce different results. In Greek mythology, how each and every person dies is already indelibly written by the fates in the proverbial ledger of destiny. Death, everything about it, is determined even before birth, and Moros, the god of Doom, is the personification of the power that uncompromisingly and unyieldingly ensures everyone meets their fated end. In short, doom drives destiny; doom is the guardrails that makes sure people don't veer off the road and arrive at their death destination.

Here's how this video is going to work: First we're going to quickly go over Moros' family: who his parents were, who his siblings were, and generally, how he fits, in a structural sense, into Greek mythology. Second, we're going to see how his power and purview are complementary to those of his siblings. If you think of death as a process that begins before birth when a person's destiny is decided and ends when a person arrives in the underworld, achieving this requires the efforts of many gods working in concert, beginning with the fates and ending with Charon, the ferryman who conveys the souls of the dead across the River Styx.

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