Kker
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(plural: Keres) Greek Female spirits that
represented a person's death or perhaps destiny. Each
person had one ker as a companion through life. The
keres were portrayed as black, winged beings with long,
pointed tails. According to stories, they tore at dead
bodies to drink the blood. Homer, the great Greek poet
credited with writing the Iliad, indicated that the keres
accompanied heroes and determined not only their
deaths but the ways in which their lives would unfold.
According to Hesiod, a Greek poet who wrote in the
800s b.c., the keres were the daughters of Nyx (Night)
and the sisters of Thanatos (Death) and the Fates.