![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems that Moira is related with Tekmor (proof, ordinance) and with Ananke, who were primeval goddesses in mythical cosmogonies. In Plato's Republic the Three Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity). Later they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order and law. In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods. In the Homeric poems Moira or Aisa, is related with the limit and end of life, and Zeus appears as the guider of destiny. The gods and men had to submit to them, but in the case of Zeus he is portrayed in two ways: as the only one who can command them (the Zeus Moiragetes) or as the one who is also bound to the Moiras as incarnation of the fates. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. ![]() They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. Their number became fixed at three: Clotho (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable). In Greek mythology, the Moirai ( Ancient Greek: Μοῖραι, "apportioners", Latinized as Moerae)-often known in English as the Fates-were the white-robed incarnations of destiny ( Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the "sparing ones", or Fata also equivalent to the Germanic Norns). Old National Gallery, Berlin Greek deities Relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark by Johann Gottfried Schadow. ![]()
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