How many Fates are there?

There were three Fates. Their names were: Clotho
Clotho
Who was Clotho? Clotho was one of the Three Fates or Moirai in Greek mythology, her sisters being Lachesis and Atropos. She was the one who spun the thread of the lives of all mortals, as well as the one to decide when a person would be born or killed, along with other similarly important decisions.
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(meaning “The Spinner”), Lachesis
Lachesis
Lachesis was one of the Three Moirai (Fates) in Greek mythology. Her sisters were Clotho and Atropos, and they were all daughters of Zeus and Themis. The name Lachesis derives from th everb meaning "to obtain by fate, lot, or divine will".
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(or “The Alloter”) and Atropos
Atropos
Atropos (/ˈætrəpɒs, -pəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτροπος "without turn") or Aisa, in Greek mythology, was one of the three Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was Morta.
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(literally “The Unturning” or, more freely, “The Inflexible”).
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How many Fates are there in Greek mythology?

In Greek mythology, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos are better known by which name? And the answer: The Fates.
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Who were the 3 Fates?

From the time of the poet Hesiod (8th century bc) on, however, the Fates were personified as three very old women who spin the threads of human destiny. Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible).
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Are the Fates stronger than Zeus?

The Fates were even more powerful than the gods, though this did not stop the gods from trying. Homer writes it was the will of fate that the Greeks destroy Troy, when Rumor and Panic caused the Greeks to want to flee.
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How many fate sisters are there?

As the three Sisters of Fate, Lahkesis, Atropos, and Clotho determined the fates of every mortal, God, and Titan.
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Do the three Fates share an eye?

The Graeae were three sisters in Greek mythology, who shared one eye and one tooth among them. Their names were Deino (dread), Enyo (horror) and Pemphredo (alarm).
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Who was the ugliest god?

Hephaestus. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god to be physically ugly.
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Why is Zeus afraid of Nyx?

It is commonly thought that Nyx is the only goddess that Zeus is truly afraid of because she is older and more powerful than him. This traces back to one story in which Hera, Zeus' wife and goddess of marriage and childbirth, works together with Hypnos, the god of sleep, to trick Zeus.
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Is Kronos a Titan?

In Greek mythology Cronus was the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), being the youngest of the 12 Titans. On the advice of his mother he castrated his father with a harpē, thus separating Heaven from Earth.
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Is Nyx stronger than Zeus?

Zeus even feared Nyx because she was older and stronger than him. She is the only goddess he's ever feared. That speaks volumes of her power. The moonstone is used to honor her to this day.
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Are the Fates and the Gray sisters the same?

The Gray sisters guard the Nymphs. They are the sisters of the Gorgons. Their eye was stolen from Perseus. The Fates are in charge of Destiny.
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What is Calypso the god of?

Calypso: Greek Sea Goddess

Calypso is the goddess of the sea who fell in love with Odysseus and trapped him on her island for seven years. She is typically depicted with a dolphin or a crab.
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Who is the mother of the Fates?

Their names are Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible). In the older myths, they were the daughters of Nyx, but later, they are more often portrayed as the offspring of Zeus and Themis. In Orphic cosmogony, their mother is said to have been Ananke or Necessity.
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What do the 3 Fates do?

The three Moirai, or Fates represented the cycle of life, essentially standing for birth, life, and death. They would spin (Clotho), draw out (Lachesis) and cut (Atropos) the thread of life.
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How many Furies are there?

Names of the Furies

While some sources say that there may be more, most myths have three Furies. These three goddesses are Alecto (anger), Megaera (jealousy), and Tisiphone (avenger). Each of the Furies has a different role or a different crime that she hated the most, and this was illustrated by her name.
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Where do the three Fates live?

The fates had at least three known temples, in Ancient Corinth, Sparta and Thebes.
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Who trained Chiron?

Many Greek heroes, including Heracles, Achilles, Jason, and Asclepius, were instructed by him. Chiron frequently appears in the legends of his grandson, Peleus, and his great-grandson, Achilles.
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Is Rhea a Titan?

A daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea, Rhea was a Titan. She married her brother Cronus, who, warned that one of his children was fated to overthrow him, swallowed his children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon soon after they were born.
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Who kills Cronus?

Cronus ruled harshly and Cronus in turn was defeated by Ammon's son Dionysus (3.71.
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Who is stronger than Titan Kronos?

Kronos is the most powerful Titan, and Porphyrion is the most powerful Giant. If the two fought 1v1, Porphyrion would win as a Giant can only be killed by a demigod and god.
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Who is Chaos husband?

Afterward, Night, impregnated by the wind, laid an egg in Erebus, out of which golden-winged Eros was born. And then, in Tartarus, Eros mated with Chaos, who subsequently gave birth to the race of birds.
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Who is the god of poop?

Sterculius is the god in question. He's Roman, not Greek. And “feces” is kind of stretching a point. He was the god, actually, of manure.
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Who is the god of stupidity?

In Greek mythology, Koalemos (Ancient Greek: Κοάλεμος) was the god of stupidity, mentioned once by Aristophanes, and being found also in Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Coalemus is the Latin spelling of the name. Sometimes it is referred to as a dæmon, more of a spirit and minor deity.
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Who killed Aphrodite?

After the death of Patroklos, and the return of Akhilleus to the war, Zeus allowed the gods to return to the battlefield in support of their favourites. The divine factions then broke into open conflict in which Ares and Aphrodite are felled by Athene. Homer, Iliad 20. 38 ff (trans.
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