page_title: Morta (mythology)
hierarchical_section_title: Morta (mythology)
caption_attribution_description: English: 1 Painting La Parca (The Parca) by Antonio García Vega[1]
context_page_description: In Roman mythology, Morta was the goddess of death. She is one of the Parcae, related to the Roman conception of the Fates in Greek mythology, the Moirai. Her Greek equivalent is Atropos. She is responsible for the pain and/or death that occur in a half-wake, half-sleep time frame. Her father is the god of darkness and her mother is the goddess of night. She visits and warns in advance of the pain and/or death about to be endured.
context_section_description: In Roman mythology, Morta was the goddess of death. She is one of the Parcae, related to the Roman conception of the Fates in Greek mythology, the Moirai. Her Greek equivalent is Atropos. She is responsible for the pain and/or death that occur in a half-wake, half-sleep time frame. Her father is the god of darkness and her mother is the goddess of night. She visits and warns in advance of the pain and/or death about to be endured.
caption: La Parca by Mexican artist Antonio García Vega.
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop 7.0", "Image DateTime": "2012:09:23 16:14:19", "Image ExifOffset": "2174", "Image Padding": "[]", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "587", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1055", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}