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In Greek mythology, the white-robed Moirae or Moerae (in Greek Μοῖραι — the "apportioners", often called the The Fates) were the personifications of destiny (Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the "sparing ones", or Fata; also equivalent to the Germanic Norns). They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death (and beyond). Even the gods feared the Moirae. Zeus also was subject to their power, as the Pythian priestess at Delphi once admitted. The Greek word moira (μοῖρα) literally means a part or portion, and by extension one's portion in life or destiny.

H.J. Rose writes that Nyx ("Night") was also the mother of the Moirae[1] as she was of the Erinyes, in the Orphic tradition.

The three Moirae were:

• Clotho (pronounced in English IPA: /ˈkloʊθoʊ]/, Greek Κλωθώ IPA: [klɔːˈtʰɔː] — "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equivalent was Nona, (the 'Ninth'), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.

• Lachesis (/ˈlækəsɪs/, Greek Λάχεσις [ˈlɑkʰesis] — "allotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life with her rod. Her Roman equivalent was Decima (the 'Tenth').

• Atropos (/ˈætrəpɒs/, Greek Ἄτροπος [ˈɑtropos] — "inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning",[2] sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of a person's death. When she cut the thread with "her abhorrèd shears", someone on Earth died. Her Roman equivalent was Mors ('Death').

  
  
  
  

  In mythology

  The Moirae were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth to determine the course of its life. The Greeks variously claimed that they were the daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Themis or of primordial beings like Nyx, Chaos or Ananke.

  

  

  The Moirae, as depicted in an 16th century tapestry

  In earlier times, the Moirae were represented as only a few - perhaps only one - individual goddess. Homer's Iliad speaks generally of the Moera, who spins the thread of life for men at their birth (xxiv.209), Moera Krataia "strong Moira" (xvi.334) or of several Moerae (xxiv.49). In the Odyssey (vii.197) there is a reference to the Klôthes, or Spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth and Death were revered.[3] In Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existence, was called Aphrodite Urania the 'eldest of the Fates' according to Pausanias (x.24.4).

  A bilingual Eteocretan text has the following Greek translation

  Ομοσαι δαπερ Ενορκίοισι.

  Omosai d-haper Enorkioisi.

  But may he swear [these] very things to the Oath-Keepers

  in Eteocretan this is rendered as

  --S|TUPRMĒRIĒIA

  In which MĒRIĒIA may refer to the divinities later known as the Moirae.

  Versions of the Moirae also existed on the deepest European mythological level. It is difficult to separate them from the other Indo-European spinning fate goddesses known as the Norns in Norse mythology and the Baltic goddess Laima and her two sisters. Some Greek mythographers went so far as to claim that the Moirae were the daughters of Zeus— paired with either Ananke or, as Hesiod had it in one passage,[4] Themis or Nyx. The claims of the Moirae's father(s) were contested by Aeschylus, Herodotus, or Plato.

  The Moirae were usually described as cold, remorseless and unfeeling, and depicted as old crones or hags. The independent spinster has inspired fear rather than matrimony. "This sinister connotation we inherit from the spinning goddess," write Ruck and Staples. See weaving (mythology). Some mythologies depict them instead as the traditional maiden, mother, and crone (see also popular culture, below).

  Despite their forbidding reputation, Moirae could be worshipped as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair and women swore by them. They may have originated as birth-goddesses and only later acquired their reputation as the agents of destiny.

  They likewise have forbidding appearances (beards), and appear to determine the fates of all individuals.

  Compare the Graeae, another set of three old sisters in Greek mythology.