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The Three Fates By: Alejandra Perez, Ivan Lopez, & Courtney Wedryk

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The Three FatesBy: Alejandra Perez, Ivan Lopez, &

Courtney Wedryk

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The Three Fates

❖ three sisters and the daughters of Zeus and Themis

❖ described as old and ugly women.

❖ Three days after a child was born the sisters would visit the house and determine the child’s fate and life by spinning, measuring, and cutting the “String of Life.”

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Clotho❖ the youngest of The three

sisters❖ the “Spinner of Life”❖ she spins the thread of

human life with her distaff (stick)

❖ string determines how long a person's life will be

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Lachesis ❖ is Known as the “allotter” or

“the caster of lots”❖ is depicted as a Matron❖ measures the life of each person

with the length with her measuring rod

❖ Symbol = scroll or globe (horoscope)

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Atropos

❖ Known as the “inflexible” or ‘inevitable”

❖ Oldest sister

❖ Cuts the thread of life/ determines the time

the time of death

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Other interpretations of the Three fates❖ also known as the destinies, Moirae

➢ their theme is fate / destinies❖ Most of the stories = they determine both mortal

and deties lives❖ In some myths they were daughters of zeus and the

titan goddess Themis (goddess of divine order)➢ in others they were daughters of Ananke (the

personification of necessity)➢ others they are created by the nyx