Clotho (mythology)
Klotho ( Greek Κλωθώ Klotho , German , spinner ' ) is in Greek mythology, one of the three Fates . Your task is to spin the thread of life , which is measured by Lachesis and cut by Atropos .
According to Hesiod , Clotho was a daughter of Zeus and Themis . Elsewhere in the theogony , however, the goddesses of fate (Moiren) are called children of the Nyx ("night").
Her Roman equivalent was Nona (the "ninth"), originally a goddess who was invoked in the 9th month of pregnancy.
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1:13
- ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 901-906
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 217f