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The Fates are three of the most underrated, yet most important goddesses in mythology. Their title - the Fates - is fitting because they control your fate, as well as your past and present. They appear in not just Greek and Roman myths, but also in Norse Myths. All Fates share the symbol of the Distaff. The Norns are personally my favorites.

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When Thetis dipped her son, Achilles, into the River Styx, she changed the course of history. The Fates were angered, for Achilles should have died, yet he didn’t. Over the course of time, Achilles ended many people's lives, people who weren’t supposed to die yet. In the end, the Fates won. A poisoned arrow shot Achilles heel, his only weak spot, and he died, and the Fates once again did their job.

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The will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do.
DESTINY… fate sometimes deals a straight flush … he had no idea that he would become the right man in the right place at the right time …— June Goodheart
An inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end
Her fate was to remain in exile.

DISASTER especially: DEATH The villain met his fate at the hands of the hero.
Final outcome Congress decided the bill's fate by a single vote.

The expected result of normal development prospective fate of embryonic cells

The circumstances that befall someone or something Ally did not know the fate of her former classmates

Fates plural The three goddesses, Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis, who determine the course of human life in classical mythology
-Definition of Fate by MerriamWebster.com

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Asclepius, son of Apollo, was once a great healer. In fact, he was so good at his job that he could bring back the dead! This angered the Fates, Atropos most of all. The Fates told Zeus, and with his mighty lightning bolt in hand he killed Asclepius. This made Apollo angry, so he killed the cyclops, because he could not harm Zeus. Asclepius was brought back to life as the God of Medicine, and the Fates were happy again.

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The Moirai are the Greek version of the Fates. Their names are Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Aloter), and Atropos (Inflexible). No one knows who parented them for sure, but in the earlier myths they were spawned from Nyx, Goddess of Night. Then, later on they are portrayed as the daughters of Zeus and Thetis. The last account of their birth declares them as daughters of Ananke, or Necessity.

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Clotho is a Greek aspect of the Fates. Her name means spinner. She spins the thread of life, giving this  person the ups and downs of a lifetime, all in a single thread. She is pale, with long blonde hair and rosy red cheeks. Her symbol is the Spindle.

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Lachesis is a Greek aspect of the Fates. Her name means alloter. She measures the string that Clotho spins. Lachesis can make your life go on for yards and yard before handing it to Atropos, but sometimes she give Atropos the string before the life has really begun.

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Atropos is a Greek aspect of the Fates. Her name means inflexible. Atropos's symbol is the shears, because her job is to cut the amount of string that Lachesis measures. She is merciless, and no God or Goddesses could change Atropos's will. She, as her name says, is inflexible.

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The Parcae are the Roman Fates. Their names are Nona, Decuma and Morta. Nona spins the Thread of Life, Decuma decides how long it goes on, and Morta cuts it. They are basically the Moirai, exept by different names. They live in Zeus's palace on Mount Olympus, and they provide the Olympians with all of the knowledge of Fate.

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Nona is the Roman aspect of Clotho, and she spins thread of  life upon her loom. She blesses lives with love and family when she is in a good mood, but leaves lives terrible and lonely when she is angry. Her symbol is the Spindle.

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Decuma is the Roman aspect of Lachesis. Her symbols include the Scroll and the Distaff. Her job is to draw out the string that Nona spins, and then to hand it on to  Morta when she was ready to end the life. When Decuma felt genourus she might let the string go on for yards and yards, but she was known to only let the string of life to go on for an inch before lettin Morta end it.

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Morta is a Roman aspect of the fates, and her symbol is the shears, which she uses to snip the string of life, killing the mortal that the string connects to. No one can change her will, whether they are a mortal or a god. She can get angry when people like Aesculapius raise the dead.

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The Norns are the Norse version of the Fates. They represent the past, the present, and the future. Their names are Urd (The Past), Verdandi (What is presently coming into being), and Skuld (What shall come). They are from the Norse Other world, and there are actually millions of them in Norse mythology, but these three are most commonly mentioned. Some are gods, some are half-dwarf, some are half-elf. They live in a hall by Uroarbrunner, or the Well of Fate.

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Urd is one of the Norse aspects of the Fates. Her name means "The Past" in the Old Norse tounge. Unlike Nona and Clotho, she gives people their pasts, and when she is happy lets them have memories. But be warned...  when Urd is angry with you, you may find your memories missing.

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This Norse Norn is in charge of the present. In Old Norse Verdandi litterally means "What is presently coming into being". Verdandi usually appears as a young girl, and she can appear in many places at a time, for she know all that is going on in the now. She can change what is happening in a blink of an eye. She might end a war one second, just to start another. You don't want to be on Verdandi's bad side.

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Skuld is one of the Norns, and she is very important. She controls the future, and chooses when to choose when you die. She is sometimes helpful, though. She will tell you the future if you find her, but always with a price. She usually appears as a frail old woman, but she is really quite agile. In Old Norse the word Skuld means "What shall come".

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The Fates and the Norns seem to be both. In Poetic Edda a character tells the story of his son dying. He quotes that "(the/a) Norn is grim to me". A later on poem states the opposite, as a character recounts avenging a loved one and says "The nornir settled it so it was right".

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A staff is a tool that Gods and Goddesses use to channel their magic. Circe's staff allowed her to transform into other animals. Hermes and Asclepius both possess staffs, and Asclepius's staff is a common medical sign.

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Destiny and fate are synonyms, but only fate is mentioned in Greek Mythology. I wonder why? But it is unlikely we will ever know... for know.

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It is where the string spun from the wool wound onto the distaff is put so that the string for spinning.

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The Book of Fate is a magical scroll that Clotho holds. It has the past, the present, and the future written on it, and whatever Clotho spins into the Thread of Life will appear unto that scroll.

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A distaff is a stick or a spindle that wool is wound unto for spinning.

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The Thread of Life is somewhat confusing. What I mean when I say that Nona or Clotho have the job of spinning the Thread of Life, I mean that she is spinning a physical thread, yet that thread is embedded with a human life. The Greeks and Romans believed the Fates were why they were born, and how they were killed.

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A symbol of the Fates

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Shears are basically scissors. They are used to cut of the wool of sheep, and Atropos and Morta use their shears to cut the Thread of Life.

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Symbols of the Fates

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A symbol of the Fates

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A symbol of the Fates

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Lachesis is a Moirai, and she measures Clotho's string. There is a snake called Lachesis Muta, and this reptile is named after Lachesis.

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Do you believe in the Fates? Do you believe in the Norns? Do you believe in fate? Here is a link to some books and movies based on fate: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19n3yaV2uLYQmnj7geVGqhwk7C2kOWv6jVXMaLpQg-8U/edit#slide=id.ga609be3553_0_0

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Thank you to Yung In Chae and her book, Goddess Power, thank you Britannica, and finally thanks to GreekMythology.com.

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This was all created by Sophia L Baker (or ME!)

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