Moros: Doom, Child of Night (Hesiod)

Catalogue ID: 01-cosmogony-theogony/051-moros-doom-nyx-hesiodic

Cycle: Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified doom

Version line: Hesiodic — Moros (Doom) among Nyx’s first-born

Sources: Hesiod, *Theogony* 211

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Characters

Ker — Night’s son; personified destined ruin
Moirae — distinct Fate figures (background)
Nyx — mother

Places

Night’s generative darkness — Hesiodic origin

Themes

Birth

Narrative

At the head of Night’s brood Hesiod names Moros (Doom)—the allotted ruin or destined end—together with black Ker, Thanatos, and Hypnos. Moros is not spun thread like the Moirae nor a death-spirit that hunts the dying like the Keres; he is Doom itself, the abstract fate of destruction born from Night. Hesiod gives him no deeds: his presence in the genealogy marks doom as a cosmic sibling of Death and Sleep. Isolate Moros as Night’s child of destined ruin, apart from Fate-spinners and death-daimones already catalogued.