Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore

Suwanee Goswami; Dr. Eric Soreng

Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore

December 2021

Vol-7, Issue-6

Paper ID: 15715

ISSN: 2395-4396

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Research Area

Psychology

Keywords

Roman Goddess Fortuna Mythology Psychology Meretrix

Abstract

The Roman Goddess Fortuna is the personification of fate, luck, chance and bounty. Her smile is described as whorish due to its fickleness upon which the luck of humankind depends. As the ruler of chance she is in control of the universe but is whimsical by temperament and quite arbitrary in the exertion of her powers. The Meretrix aspect of Fortuna is explored in this paper with reflections about the nature of fate and chance in the light of Jung’s concept of synchronicity as a counterpart. Further, Fortuna as presiding deity over gambling, divination, oracular powers is explored with special reference to the Wheel of Fortune card in the tarot.

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#	Name	Institute / Affiliation
1	Suwanee Goswami	Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi
2	Dr. Eric Soreng	Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi

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Goswami, Suwanee & Soreng, Dr. Eric (2021). Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 7(6), 868-872.

MLA Style

Goswami, Suwanee, and Dr. Eric Soreng. "Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 7, no. 6, 2021, pp. 868-872.

IEEE Style

Suwanee Goswami and Dr. Eric Soreng, "Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore," International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 868-872, 2021.

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Goswami Suwanee, Soreng Dr. Eric. Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education. 2021;7(6):868-872.

Harvard Style

Goswami, Suwanee & Soreng, Dr. Eric (2021) 'Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore', International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 7(6), pp. 868-872.

Chicago Style

Goswami, Suwanee and Dr. Eric Soreng. "Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 7, no. 6 (2021): 868-872.

Turabian Style

Goswami, Suwanee and Dr. Eric Soreng. "Goddess Fortuna: Smile of a Whore." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 7, no. 6 (2021): 868-872.