(Latin root parere=to bear, give birth) Originally, a pair of Roman goddesses of birth, named Decuma and → Nona; later, under the influence of the Greek → Moirai, a triad was formed by the addition of the goddess of death Morta. Together,...

In Greek mythology, the white-robed Moirae or Moerae (in Greek Μοῖραι — the "apportioners", often called the The Fates) were the personifications of destiny (Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the "sparing ones", or Fata; also...