Traditional interpretation
ANANKE was the primordial goddess (protogenos) of necessity, compulsion and inevitability. In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation--an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos. Ananke and her mate Khronos (Chronos) (Time), their serpentine coils entwined, crushed the primal egg of creation splitting it into its constituent parts of earth,
???Ananke; Greek: Ἀνάγκη, from the common noun ἀνάγκη, "force, constraint, necessity") is the personification of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. She is customarily depicted as holding a spindle.
How neuromythography uses
Ananke represents the 23c.
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Activated in OCD
Ananke was the goddess of compulsion and slavedriving.
Sense of freedom of choice
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