Three elder female deities define our mortal lives
From the third night after birth
till the point when the thread is cut

Clotho is spinning ceaselessly the threads of human life
Lachesis draws the lots for every one of us
Atropos cuts with no scruple the threads that hold us alive
The offspring of the Nyx, they call them Moirai

Destiny is written on the wind, no one knows how life will be
They decided for our fates long ago
No vicissitude can be made even from gods

Clotho is spinning ceaselessly the threads of human life
Lachesis draws the lots for every one of us
Atropos cuts with no scruple the threads that hold us alive
The offspring of the Nyx, they call them Moirai

Chaos made Nyx, the goddess of the night
And one of the first creatures ever to emerge from the void
Sister of Erebus, Gaia and Tartarus
Nyx had children by the god Erebus
To Erebus the goddess bore Aether and Hemera
But she also bore by herself a number of offspring
Those were Eris, Hypnos, Nemesis, Thanatos
The Hesperides and the Moirai