Transcript The Three Fates

The Three Fates
Anthony Triplin
Mr. Ribardo
Mythology
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The Moerae, or the Fates, were the Natural Law
of Greek Mythology.
Controlled the “Thread of Life” of every mortal
from birth to death.
Believed to be Daemons, a supernatural mix of
god and mortal.
The triplet daughters of Zeus and Themis, the
Titaness of divine order, social order, and law.
Have the job of keeping order to the universe,
and set a standard to which even the gods have
to obey, and cannot reverse or interfere.
Clotho
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Greek for “Spinner”.
The fate responsible for “spinning the
thread of human life”.
Decided who, when, and where a person
was born.
Decided when gods or mortals were to be
saved or put to death.
Clotho’s thread represented human life,
and her decisions created the fate of all
men in society.
 Greek for “disposer of lots”.
 The second Fate, responsible for determining the
Destiny of a god or mortal.
 Interpreted how long a person or being could live by
measuring their thread of life on Clotho’s spindle.
 After measuring the thread of life, she was to decide
the person/beings fate three days before its birth.
 Also assigns lots to the souls who are choosing their
newly reincarnated life. (Republic of Plato)
Greek name means “inflexible”, the oldest
of the three fates.
 Chose how every person or being died.
 Cut the “thread of life” with her symbolic
shears to symbolize the end of their life.
 Considered the angel of death of Greek
Mythology, if she was seen cutting a string,
it was meant to show that either you or
someone important in your life was going to
die .
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