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title: Moirai
description: Sisters of Zeus and governors of the lives of men.
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source: en/moiras/index.md
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The Moirai were three sisters, daughters of Zeus, whose mission was to govern the lives of men.

There are differences regarding their names; in the most widely known versions these are:

-   **Lachesis**, who presided over the last month of pregnancy and measured the length of the thread of life
-   **Clotho**, symbol of fatalism in human events
-   **Atropos**, who presided over birth and was, simultaneously, charged with cutting the thread of existence.

The Moirai correspond to the **Norns** of Norse mythology and the **Parcae** in Latin mythology.