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View Name: Atropos


ATROPOS
GENDER: Feminine
OTHER SCRIPTS: Ατροπος (Ancient Greek)
Meaning & History
Means "inevitable, inflexible" in Greek. Atropos was one of the three Fates or Μοιραι (Moirai) in Greek mythology. When her sister Lachesis decided that a person's life was at an end, Atropos would choose the manner of death and cut the person's life thread.
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