Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Triple Goddess of fate and acts of generation; Those Who spin the thread of life, perhaps originally the thread was spun of moon-light or sunlight; Those Who write, or read, the book of fate; Those Who are credited by some with the first invention of the Greek (?) alphabet.
Originally They were probably birth Spirits Who visit a new born child and assign shehe's destiny, perhaps also a triple Goddess of the moon.
To Whom Sacred: dog (and dog sacrifice); horse; spinning; thread; sundial; scales; the colour white.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Their will is executed by the Ceres, {Bringers-of-Death}, Who are linked with Car, {Queen-Bee}.
• They are also called Clothes, The-Spinners, below.
• The Romans identified Them with thier own multiple fate Goddess Fata, Fates, below.
• Sometimes titled: the Graiae, Grey-Ones.
• Transliteration variant: Moirai.
• They are Daughters of Nyx, Night, Who is linked with Car, Queen-Bee.
• The Moirae, Fates, have affininites with the Norse Nornir, {Well-Water-Raisers}.
• They are identified with the three Telchines, Enchanters.
• Allegorically the Moirae, Fates, are called Daughters of Themis, Steadfast-One.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: Greek 'not to be turned', from a-, not + trepein, 'to turn'. Related English words: atropine; atrophy is also related, but not so clearly.
Description: Eldest, smallest, but most terrible Fate; unchangeable, unbending Goddess of death; She Who cuts the thread of life; She Who decides the outcome of battles and the fate of the combatants; She Whose decisions are irrevocable; She Who spins or sings the past.
To Whom Sacred: 'the abhorred shears'; brass pestle; belladonna (a poisonous European plant, Atropa belladonna, of the nightshade family, with purplish or reddish bell-shaped flowers and shiny black berries, it is also called deadly nightshade); atropine (of which belladonna is the source. [Modern Latin derived from Italian bella donna, 'beautiful lady': a folk etymology (influenced by cosmetic use for dilating the eye) for Modern Latin bladona, 'nightshade'.]

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Aisa, IS1, Fate, is another name by which She is known.
• See also Ialysa, Wailing-Woman, (Who is one of the Telchines, Enchanters), to Whom Atropos, Inevitable, is likened.
• She is also called: Moira, Strong-One, below.
• She is the Third Person of the Triple Moirae, Fates, above.
• At Athens Urania, {Queen-of-Earth}, is called the eldest of the Moirae, Fates.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: it seems hardly possible that the English words: cloth, clothe, clothes, clothier, clad (and so on) are unrelated, but according to some etymologists their origin is unknown while others say they. are from another line entirely
Description: Goddess of the present; She Who spins the thread of life (though some say She Who places the unspun flax on the spindle which She holds when Lachesis, Measurer, draws out the thread).
To Whom Sacred: spindle or distaff.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps etymologically connected to Irish Clothru, ----, Who is linked with Eriu, Mercy.
• Perhaps also called, or at least equivalent to: Ilithyia, {She-Who-Aids-Women-in-Labour}, Who is linked with Eileithyia, She-Who-Aids-Women-in-Labour.
• See also Linda, Binder-with-Linen-Thread, (Who is linked with the Telchines, Enchanters), to Whom Clotho, The-Spinner, is likened.
• She is the First Person of the Triple Moirae, Fates, above.
• Transliteration variant: Klotho.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: orthography kappa-lambda-omega-theta-epsilon-sigma, (Klothes), from kappa-lambda-omega-theta-omega, (klotho), 'to twist by spinning'. Related English words: clothe, clothes. But see linguistic note for Clotho, above.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps cognate with Irish Triple Goddess Clothru. .----
• Alternate name for the Moirae, Distributors, above.

Geography/Culture: Roman.
Linguistic Note: adaption of Latin fatum, that which is spoken, fate, from Latin fatus, past participle of fari, to speak. Perhaps allied to Greek pheme, phami, report, fame. Late Latin fata, a fairy; literally, a fate, a Goddess of destiny. English words related to Fata: fate, fatal, fatality, fey (fay), fairy.
Description: Triple Goddess of fate; Those Who control the destinies of individuals and cities; Those Who record the destiny of an idividual at birth.
To Whom Sacred: the number 7 (they visit a child on the 7th day after birth).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also Béfind, White-Lady, (Who is linked with Boann, {Queen-Mother-of-Cows}), for Celtic equivalents.
• Fatua, ----, a title of Fauna, She-Who-is-Propitious, in Her prophetic aspect, would seem to be etymologically related to Fata, Fates.
• The early Roman birth Goddess Parca, She-Who-Brings-Forth, was tripled to correspond with the Greek Moirae, Fates.
• Daughters of Roman Necessitas, N]S]YT1S, {She-Who-brings-about-the- ineviatble}. Goddess of the destiny of human-kind.
• The Fata, Fates, are also called: Parcae, P*KI, Those-Who-Bring-Forth, (Parca pluralised), Their attributes being the same as those of the Moirae, Fates.
• Also called: Fata-Scribunda, F*T*-SKRYBUND1, Those-Who-Write-Down-Destinies.
• Anglesicezed variant: Fates.
• Their visiting of children on the seventh day after birth brings to my mind the visit to children on the sixth day of Hindustani Sasthi, She-of-the-Sixth-Day.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of destiny; Editor of individual lives; Disposer of lots; She Who draws off the thread determining its length and course.
To Whom Sacred: measuring rod.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is also called: Callone, K*LONA, Beauty.
• Cameira, Sharer-Out, (Who is linked with the Telchines, Enchanters), is equivalent to Her.
• Second person of the Greek Triple Moirae, Fates.

Geography/Culture: Greek.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Alternate name for Alecto, Unrestful, Who is one of the Erinyes, Spirits-of-Anger-and-Revenge.
• The singular Moira, Strong-One, developed from the triple Moirae, Fates, probably not the other way about.

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  worked on: September, August, June 1995; July 1994; August 1991; June 1990.
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