The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(Moirai; Greek moira=portion, share) Originally, man’s allotted ‘portions’ in life, his share of fate; thereafter, the three goddesses of fate, Klotho (the spinner) who spins the thread of life, Lachesis, who sustains it through all contingencies, and Atropos (‘the inevitable’) who cuts it through and thereby brings death. In Hesiod they are the daughters of → Zeus and of → Themis.
In ancient art they are depicted with spindle, scroll or scales. The Romans equated them with the Parcae. In popular belief in modern Greece they are called mires.
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