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Fatae
Also Fates.
Greek and Roman
mythologies include three spiritual beings called in Greek the Moirai, in Latin Parcae or
Fatae, who were supposed to control the destiny of a person. They were named (probably
after Hesiod) Clothe (or Clotho), who held a distaff on which was the material of life;
Lachesis, who spun the thread from this material and, by doing so, assigned the individual
his lot or fate ; and Atropos (literately "the one that cannot be restrained"),
who made that final cut of the thread which ended life.
The Fates were conceived as old women,
who were present at every birth, ready to spin the new born's fate, according to the will
of the gods.
Sometimes the three are called the
Harsh Spinners, even though they do not all spin. Their 'spinning' was said to take place
at birth, and in some periods also at marriage, when a new life or fate was made. The
general word moirai means 'share' or 'apportioned lot'. Lachesis means approximately
'obtaining by lot' and atropos 'irresistible'.
The three
witches in Macbeth
have been linked with these three spinners, from the old English term weird, which means
approximately 'destiny'; the three 'weird sisters' were the Fates who control destiny.
Related books:
MacBeth (New
Cambridge Shakespeare).
Macbeth: Modern
English Version Side-By-Side With Full Original Text (Shakespeare Made Easy).
Spiritual Beings
in the Heavenly Bodies and the Kingdoms of Nature: A Cycle of Ten Lectures Helsinki,
April 3-14, 1912: With Four Additional Lectur.
Spiritual Beings
Like You - Like Me.
More books.
Further info:
The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
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