Night Fates

The fates, also known as the Moirae and the Daughters of Night, are three very important Greek goddesses (Moirae). They control the fate of each person’s lives from the day a person is born until the day they die no matter god or human. Each of the fates had a specific role in the deciding of everyone’s life. No one could ever outwit the fates. Not even Zeus or Hera tried to outwit them. People would think the fates were sometimes cruel, but they were just doing what was expected of them by the order of cosmos. The fates were three sisters named Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos (Moirae). They each had a different job in deciding the fates of humans and gods. Clotho the spinner, she spun the thread of people’s lives (Moirae). Lachesis the appointer, she decided the life span of each person (Moirae0. Atropos the inevitable, she cut the thread for when a person should die (Moirae). Although all fates were feared Atropos was feared the most (Moulton). She …show more content…
They rarely ever came out of the lair to help. One of the times that they come out is in the story where they help Apollo. When Atropos cut the thread of a King Admetus, Apollo begged the fates to undo their work because he was a friend of Apollos and he didn’t want him to die. The sisters told him they could not undo anything but if someone were to take the kings place in the underworld he could live. The king’s wife Alcestis offered herself to trade places with Admetus. But Hercules ended up rescuing Alcestis so they both got to live (Moirae). The fates were very important goddesses. They control the fate of gods and humans from the day they are born until the day they die no matter what. The fates were known to be cruel but, were only doing their jobs. In fact there was only a few times where the fates showed mercy but it always ended the way the fates predicted. No one not even the gods could outwit the fates and only fools would