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Moirai

In Greek mythology, the title of the three Fates; the name refers to the ‘portions’ of life they allotted to each human being, a destiny represented by a thread, although they sometimes appeared as goddesses of inevitability. Lachesis assigned the length of a life from her distaff, Clotho spun its existence, and Atropos broke the thread to signify its termination.



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