Moira may mean portion or share on the distribution of booty (ίση μοίρα, isi moira, "equal booty"), portion in life, lot, destiny, (μοίρα έθηκαν αθάνατοι, moiran ethikan athanatoi, "the immortals fixed the destiny") death - moros- (μοίρα θανάτοιο, moira thanatoio, " destiny of death"), portion of the distributed land., The word is also used for something which is meet and right (κατά μοίραν, kata moiran, "according to fate, in order, rightly") The Ancient Greek word moira (μοίρα) means a portion or lot of the whole, and is related to meros, "part, lot" and moros, "fate, doom", Latin meritum, "desert, reward", English merit, derived from the PIE root *(s)mer, "to allot, assign". The goddess Dike (justice, divine retribution), keeps the order and sets a limit to any actions. In earliest Greek philosophy, the cosmogony of Anaximander is based on these mythical beliefs. The concept of a universal principle of natural order, has been compared with similar concepts in other cultures like the Vedic Rta, the Avestan Asha ( Arta) and the Egyptian Maat. The ancient Greek writers might call this power Moira or Ananke, and even the gods could not alter what was ordained.
It seems that Moira is related with Tekmor (proof, ordinance) and with Ananke, who were primeval goddesses in mythical cosmogonies. In Plato's Republic the Three Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity). Later they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order and law. In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods. In the Homeric poems Moira or Aisa, is related with the limit and end of life, and Zeus appears as the guider of destiny.
The gods and men had to submit to them, but in the case of Zeus he is portrayed in two ways: as the only one who can command them (the Zeus Moiragetes) or as the one who is also bound to the Moiras as incarnation of the fates. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. Their number became fixed at three: Clotho (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable). In Greek mythology, the Moirai ( Ancient Greek: Μοῖραι, "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). Old National Gallery, Berlin Greek deities
Relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
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