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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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I thought of knitting because of the Fates, you know, the Moirae, but it really didn't have the right texture or vocabulary, and then I started looking at crocheting and embroidery, and when I found a book by Betsie Verwoerd about embroidery I thought, bingo
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The Greeks had the Moirae, the Fates, one to spin the yarn, one to draw out the thread, one to cut it.
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One thinks, for example, of the three fates, the Moirae of Greek and the Norns of Nordic mythology, who spin, measure, and cut the thread of each human life.
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