moirai

Noun

Meaning

any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Roman Parcae and similar to the Norse Norns

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At all this, consternation of course overcame the Moirai and they immediately let go their arms. Source: Internet

Galinthias, fearing that the pains of her labour would drive Alkmene mad, ran to the Moirai and Eleithyia and announced that by desire of Zeus a boy had been born to Alkmene and that their prerogatives had been abolished. Source: Internet

As the birth throes for Herakles were pressing on Alkmene, the Moirai (Fates) and Eileithyia (Birth-Goddess), as a favour to Hera, kept Alkmene in continuous birth pangs. Source: Internet

Moreoever, theories have been proposed that the idea that there are three main norns may be due to a late influence from Greek and Roman mythology, where there are also spinning fate goddesses ( Moirai and Parcae ). Source: Internet

The Moirai were aggrieved at this and took away the womanly parts of Galinthias since, being but a mortal, she had deceived the gods. Source: Internet

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