Kārta completes the Latvian trio of fate-goddesses alongside Laima and Dēkla. Her name is generally connected with the verbs for 'hanging' or 'arranging', and in the songs she is understood as the power who fixes and confirms the destiny that has been decreed, giving the fate its final and binding form. Like Dēkla she is invoked far less often than Laima, and scholars disagree over whether the three names denote genuinely separate deities or facets of a single goddess of fortune; the dainas nevertheless preserve them as a working sisterhood who together assign, tend and seal the course of a human life.