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By this means the ancients were enabled to interpret, satisfactorily to themselves, the varying freaks of fickle fortune, and account for apparent favoritism and injustice. This twofold view of the Moirae, considering them sometimes as possessed of supreme power, and issuing irrevocable decrees, and at other times as interfered with and overruled by Zeus, is easily accounted for in the vain attempts of uninspired man to harmonize the seemingly inconsistent meting out of fate. Oftener, however, Zeus is pictured as in the background, weighing out power to them, and interfering with their decrees when disposed to save his favorites or destroy those with whom he is angry. The gods as well as mortals are subject to their authority, and even Zeus is sometimes represented as powerless to annul their decrees. Considering the Moirae as strictly divinities of fate, they are viewed as independent, meting out individual destinies in accordance with eternal laws which know, no variations or exceptions. Ultimately the number became three, and personified past, present, and future. As used in the first sense, it is supposed the Greeks originally conceived of but one Moira, but on further consideration of her nature and attributes adopted the idea of two, representing life's two boundaries of birth and death. The representations of the character and nature of the Moirae, as varied as they are numerous, may, for our purpose, be classed in two divisions: 1st, those in which the Moirae are but allegorical representations of the duration of human life 2d, those in which the Moirae are considered strictly as divinities of fate. Other mythographers picture Clotho as holding the distaff, and ever furnishing the present Lachesis, twirling the spindle, lays out the future and Atropos severs the past by cutting the thread with her fatal. These he calls the daughters of Zeus and Thermis, a genealogy from which late writers differ. Hesiod living a little later, distinguishes three Moirae, and names them as Clotho, or the spinning fate Lachesis, or the one who assigns man his fate and Atropos, or the fate that cannot be avoided. 24:29), speaks of but one Moira, a personification of fate, whom he represents as spinning the thread of each man's life, and though counselling with the other gods, yet as having supreme authority in directing and controlling the fate of each individual, and yielding obeisance only to Zeus. Moira (Μοῖρα, a share), the classical personification of that mysterious yet irresistible power whose invisible sceptre controls and directs human events, and assigns to each individual his fate or share.