THE GODDESS MORAE

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THE GODDESS MORAE

• BY ROHIT KUMAR

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MORAE

• ROMAN-PARCAE
• GREEK-MORAE,MOIRAE,MOIRAI
• ENGLISH TRANSLANTION- THE FATES
• THE FATES GODDESS OF MANS DESTINY
• DECIDE HOW LONG LIFE IS AND IF THEY ARE GOOD OR
  EVIL.
• MORAI IS THOUGHT OF AS OLD, MEAN, UNMERCIFUL. ETC.

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MORAE

• MOIRAI, THE FATES DAUGHTER OF ZEUS AND THEMIS,
• NO ONE KNOWS THE EXTENT OF POWER THE GODDESS OF
  DESTINY HAS, MOIRAI COULD DECIDE THE GODS LIFE
  EVEN, THEY THINK.
• MOIRAI CONTROLS MANS DESTINY
• THERE ARE THREE GODDESS
• CLOTHO, LACHESIS, AND ATROPOS
• LASTLY NO ONE WILL MESS WITH THERE POWER.

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GODDESS OF DESTINY

• The Three Fates together are represent parts
  unknown life.
• The three women sit in a three with a Sundial
  Pointer, Gnomon
• http//www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/spaces/sund
  ial/sundial3.html

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CLOTHO

• NONA ROMAN NAME
• CLOTHO, SPINNER OF LIFE, SHE MAKES LIFE BY THE
  SPUN THREAD.

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LACHESIS

• DECIMA ROMAN NAME
• LACHESIS, THE ALOTTER, SHE MEASURES LIFE TO
  DETERMINE HOW LONG ONE CAN LIVE LIFE EVEN FOR
  ANIMALS AND DEITIES

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ATROPOS

• MORTA ROMAN NAME
• ATROPOS, THE INEVIABLE, SHE CUTS THE THREAD OF
  LIFE WHEN LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO DIE.

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Myth of the Goddess Moirai

• The gods in the ancient times obey Moirai because
  they decide there destiny.
• Apollo friend Adtemus was supposed to die, but
  Apollo was able to get the fates drunk, and
  instead of Adtemus they took his wifes death
  Alkistis.

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Myth of the Goddess Moirai

• Zeus adored his son Sarpydonas who got into a
  duel with Hector.
• Sarpydonas is getting beaten, which makes Zeus
  suffer.
• To save Sarpydonas from death by Moirai.
• Zeus makes it rain blood to show the sorrow. And
  Atena helps Zeus and Sarpydonas out by telling
  how to avoid death from moirai.
• During the duel, he takes the golden pair of
  scales, which makes end of this fight judged more
  objectively.
• This makes Hectors side heavier and he dies
  instead of Sarypydonas.

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SOURCE PAGE

• http//www.pantheon.org/articles/m/moirae.html
• http//www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/spaces/sund
  ial/ sundial3.html
• http//www.dl.ket.org/cgi-pub/foxweb.exe/Gods_at_/db/
  pub/pub?byromanname
• http//www.crystalinks.com/greekgods2.html
• http//edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/GG/ot
  hergod.html
• http//www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedi
  a/m/mo/moirae.html
• http//www.archaeonia.com/religion/deities/fates.h
  tm
• www.vroma.org/ araia/lachesis.html