
The Roman goddesses were named Nona, Decuma, and Morta. The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. Clotho spun the “thread” of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual’s moment of death). Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). From the time of the poet Hesiod (8th century bc) on, however, the Fates were personified as three very old women who spin the threads of human destiny. Homer speaks of Fate ( moira) in the singular as an impersonal power and sometimes makes its functions interchangeable with those of the Olympian gods.
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