Lachesis

are the three sisters who control one’s life, from the very moment they are born down to the length of said life and death. The sisters, known as deities, each have a specific job to do in controlling one’s fate; Clothos spins the thread of life, Lachesis controls the length of life, and Atropos chooses the form of death by cutting the thread with shears. “Three days after a child was born, it was thought that the Moirai would visit the house to determine the child's fate and life” (The Fates).

Preparing for the Ultimate Trial "On their arrival the souls had to go straight before Lachesis. And an interpreter….took from the lap of Lachesis a number of lots and patterns of life and…proclaimed: "This is the word of Lachesis maiden daughter of Necessity. Souls of a day, here you must begin another round of mortal life whose end is death"…Then (he) set before them….different patterns of life , far more in number than the souls who were to choose them…" Plato, The Republic, Part 11/Book

could not escape their destiny's, and from this point the concept of ‘Moriae’ was devised. The inability of any mortal or immortal to change prescribed outcomes stems from the Three Fates, the Moirae: sisters Clotho, who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, who assigns each person’s destiny; and Atropos, who carries the scissors to snip the thread of life at its end (Clementi,

fondness for Cronus illustrates why the Greeks would disapprove of anyone who might cause him to fail, namely, the Fates. This reasoning further supports why the Fates were drawn as decrepit, ugly figures. The three Fates of Greek Mythology, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos assigned destinies both to the Greek people and to the Greek divinities. They spun the thread of life at the moment of birth, decided how long each thread should be (namely, how long one should live) and cut the thread at the moment of

If I have another day like I did today, I’m going to scream until they take me away to the funny farm and feed me meds twenty-four seven. For ten years I’ve stuffed circuit boards at the High Cats International Corporation and at noon, a thousand federal agents, which included, the FBI, ICE, Homeland Security, and local police, raided the place and arrested the owner of High Cats and fifty high ranking employees. According to what I overheard the Federal agents had confiscated 800 pounds of cocaine

The fates are three goddesses of fate that tell the destiny of man. Their names are Clotho “the spinner” she spends the thread of life. Lachesis “the apportioned of lots” she measured it and finally Atropos “she who cannot be turned’ who cut it. Atropos is told to be the eldest and superior of all the three. In some stories the fates are told to be the daughters of Nyx (the night) but in other the daughters of Zeus and Themis. The fates intermission with humans didn’t begin into the creation of the

1. According to Hesiod, in the beginning there were four primordial beings. Chaos was the first entity to exist, then came Earth (Gaea), Tartarus and Eros . Chaos produced two offspring, Erebus and Night who made love and bore Aether and Day . Earth then gave birth to her son Heaven who would later become her partner. Gaea then through parthenogenesis bore the Mountains and the Sea. Gaea then along with Heaven created the Oceans, Cyclopes and the deities known as the Titans . Heaven fearing for himself

the body of a large bird and the face of a woman. She then proceeds to attack him, slicing at the unprepared hero with her claws, while he miraculously kills her with a sword. After this first triumph, the author goes on to illustrate the Fates, Lachesis of the past, Clotho the present, and Atropos of the future, as three old women knitting a pair of socks. One

Humans and gods lack of authority over their outcomes is derived from the Three Fates: Clotho spinning the thread of life, Lachesis measures the thread, and Atropos cuts the thread. Attempting to change fate is often a prominent theme in these myths- when Zeus tortures Prometheus by chaining him and having an eagle eat his immortal liver in order for Zeus to get the name of the

In greek mythology, there were the three goddesses of fate, namely the Moirai. They individually were Clotho (“spinner”), Lachesis (“allotter”), and Atropos (“inevitable”). They determined the lifespan of the Greeks walking the Earth using a ball of yarn, representing the duration of each person’s life. Once the thread was cut, the person’s death was said to have arrived. Charles Dickens used these goddesses to weave a character of his own, Madame Defarge. Until her death, Madame is unfailingly seen