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  2. Destiny - Wikipedia

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    Destiny, sometimes also called fate (from Latin fatum 'decree, prediction, destiny, fate'), is a predetermined course of events. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual.

  3. Predestination in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Predestination/Divine Destiny is one of Sunni Islam's six articles of faith, (along with belief in the Oneness of Allah, the Revealed Books, the Prophets of Islam, the Day of Resurrection and Angels). In Sunni discourse, those who assert free-will are called Qadariyya, while those who reject free-will are called Jabriyya. [8]

  4. Free will - Wikipedia

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    Destiny or fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos. Although often used interchangeably, the words "fate" and "destiny" have distinct connotations.

  5. The Destiny of White Snake - Wikipedia

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    Has the fate of Seven Prowesses (destined to be alone for rest of his lifetime). Mao Zijun [3] Fa Hai / Qi Xiao / Ling Chu: A demon catcher who was the disciple of the White Emperor in his previous lifetime. Later he becomes a monk at Mount Jin Temple. Has the fate of Alkaid (destined to slay evil and cultivate for rest of his lifetime). Li Man ...

  6. Fates - Wikipedia

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    In Albanian tradition, Ora is also regarded as a type of personal fate goddess who belongs to a single individual. [11] The trio of Fates also appears in Slavic culture as the Rozhanitsy, [12] figures who foretell an individual's destiny. Similar to Greek mythology, the Fates are known as incarnations of destiny called Norns [13] [14] in Norse ...

  7. Wyrd - Wikipedia

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    Poster for the Norwegian magazine Urd by Andreas Bloch and Olaf Krohn. Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny", or simply "unexpected".

  8. Heimarmene - Wikipedia

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    Heimarmene or Himarmene (/ h aɪ ˈ m ɑːr m ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Εἱμαρμένη) is a goddess and being of fate/destiny in Greek mythology (in particular, the orderly succession of cause and effect, or rather, the fate of the universe as a whole, as opposed to the destinies of individual people).

  9. Ananke - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Greek literature the word is also used meaning "fate" or "destiny" (ἀνάγκη δαιμόνων, "fate by the daemons or by the gods"), and by extension "compulsion or torture by a superior." [10] She appears often in poetry, as Simonides does: "Even the gods don't fight against ananke". [11]