ananke

noun

1. (uncountable)Necessity beyond all supplications or sway. Conceived as the ultimate dictator of all fate and circumstances, to which even the gods must ultimately pay homage and deference.

name

1. (Greek)A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.

   ““‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’——”

2. A moon of Jupiter.