Goddesses or demi-goddesses appear in sets of three in a number of ancient European pagan mythologies ; these include the Greek Erinyes ( Furies ) and Moirai ( Fates ); the Norse Norns ; Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, from Irish or Keltoi mythology.

The second wife was Themis, who bore the three Horae ( Hours ): Eunomia ( Order ), Dikē ( Justice ), Eirene ( Peace ); and the three Moirai ( Fates ): Clotho ( Spinner ), Lachesis ( Alotter ), Atropos ( Unturned ), as well as Tyche.

One might compare the Graeae with the three spinners of Destiny, ( the Moirai ); the northern European Norns ; or the Baltic goddess Laima and her two sisters ; though all are distinct trios.

Ordinarily the Hesperides number three, like the other Greek triads ( the Three Graces and the Moirai ).

* Agrios: Clubbed to death by his three nieces / grandnieces, the Moirai, with clubs of bronze.

* Thoon: Clubbed to death, like Agrios, by his three nieces / grandnieces, the Moirai, with clubs of bronze.

The three Moirai.

In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods.

The three Moirai, or the triumph of death, Flemish tapestry ca 1520, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

When they were three, the three Moirai were:

In the Republic of Plato, the three Moirai sing in unison with the music of the Seirenes.

The three Moirai are daughters of the primeval goddess Nyx ( Night ), and sisters of Keres ( black Fates ), Thanatos ( Death ) and Nemesis ( Indignation ).

The three Moirai are daughters of Ananke.

The Moirai were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth to determine the course of its life, as in the story of Meleager and the firebrand taken from the hearth and preserved by his mother to extend his life.

Atropos or Aisa (; " without turn "), in Greek mythology, was one of the three Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny.

* Moira ( fate ), one of the three Fates, known collectively as Moirai

Thanatos was loosely associated with the three Moirai ( for Hesiod, also daughters of Night ), particularly Atropos, who was a goddess of death in her own right.

Meleager is depicted under the wings of another Etruscan goddess of fate, identified by inscription as Athrpa, the counterpart of the Greek fate goddess Atropos who is one of the three Moirai.

While three fate goddesses have less support among academics, the concept is well-established in European religions ( e. g. Greek Moirai ).

Classical and European mythology features three goddesses dispensing fate, known as Moirai in Greek mythology, as Parcae in Roman mythology, and as Norns in Norse mythology.

In the Theogony of Hesiod ( 7 th century BC ) the three Moirai ( Fates ) are acting over the gods.

In Plato ’ s Republic, the three Moirai are daughters of Ananke.

Meanwhile, Nyx, though she married Erebos, produced children parthenogenetically: Moros ( Doom ), Oneiroi ( Dreams ), Ker and the Keres ( Destinies ), Eris ( Discord ), Momos ( Blame ), Philotes ( Love ), Geras ( Old Age ), Thanatos ( Death ), Moirai ( Fates ), Nemesis ( Retribution ), Hesperides ( Daughters of Night ), Hypnos ( Sleep ), Oizys ( Hardship ), and Apate ( Deceit ).

It was used as the equivalent of the Greek Μοῖραι Moirai, the personified Fates who determined the course and ending of human life.

Followers of Zeus claimed that it was with him that Themis produced the Moirai, Three Fates.

In Greek mythology, the Moirai (, " apportioners ", Latinized as Moerae )— often known in English as the Fates — were the white-robed incarnations of destiny ( Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the " sparing ones ", or Fata ; also equivalent to the Germanic Norns ).

By extension moira was one's portion or part in destiny which consisted of good and bad moments as it was predetermined by the Moirai ( Fates ), and it was impossible for anyone to get more than his ordained part.

Clotho () is the youngest of the Three Fates or Moirai, in ancient Greek mythology.

Later, on her own, Nyx gives birth to Momus ( blame ), Moros ( doom ), Thanatos ( death ), Hypnos ( sleep ), the Oneiroi ( dreams ), the Hesperides, the Keres and Moirai ( Fates ), Nemesis ( retribution ), Apate ( deception ), Philotes ( friendship ), Geras ( age ), and Eris ( strife ).

* Moirai ( The Fates )

He is one of the offspring of Nyx ( Night ), who had conceived him without male intervention, and brother of the Moirai ( Fates ).

When Meleager was born, the Moirai ( the Fates ) predicted he would only live until a brand, burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire.

When Meleager was born, the Moirai ( the Fates ) predicted he would only live until a brand, burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire.

Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.

Aeschylus in Prometheus Bound combines Moirai and Ananke in a scheme, when he makes Prometheus say that Zeus cannot change what is ordained, which is itself the work of the Fates and Furies according to necessity.

It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on April 10, 1872, and named after Lachesis, one of the Moirai, or Fates, in Greek mythology.

In Greece the Moirai ( the " Fates ") are the three crones who control destiny, and the matter of it is the art of spinning the thread of life on the distaff.

* Clotho, one of the Moirai, or Fates, in Greek mythology

They are similar to the Greek Fates or Moirai.

* Moirai ( Fates )

The Moirai ( the Fates as represented in Greek mythology ) used yarn to measure out the life of a man, and cut it to end it ; Defarge knits, and her knitting secretly encodes the names of people to be killed.