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And more, I feel maybe the godness has already called me.When I was a teenager, the smell of lavender helped me accept the fear of death. And these days I dream of the holy name of godness. Yesterday at Sunset, I hear the barking of dogs in a place where dogs have almost never appeared before. It barked once or twice every few minutes, and the sound seems to come from the air. I searched carefully but couldn’t find its direction. Homeric Hymn 2.58ff; cf. Ovid, Fasti 4.583ff. Though this is the standard tradition, there were other versions in which it was the nymph Arethusa (Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.487ff) or the people of Hermione (Apollodorus, Library 1.5.1), rather than Hecate, who helped Demeter. ↩ William Berg observes, "Since children are not called after spooks, it is safe to assume that Carian theophoric names involving hekat- refer to a major deity free from the dark and unsavoury ties to the underworld and to witchcraft associated with the Hecate of classical Athens." [23] In particular, there is some evidence that she might be derived from the local sun goddesses (see also Arinna) based on similar attributes. [24] A number of other plants (often poisonous, medicinal and/or psychoactive) are associated with Hecate. [55] These include aconite (also called hecateis), [56] belladonna, dittany, and mandrake. It has been suggested that the use of dogs for digging up mandrake is further corroboration of the association of this plant with Hecate; indeed, since at least as early as the 1st century CE, there are a number of attestations to the apparently widespread practice of using dogs to dig up plants associated with magic. [57] Functions [ edit ] Gilt bronze Hekataion, 1st century CE. Musei Capitolini, Rome. As a goddess of boundaries [ edit ]

Johnston, Sarah Iles. “Hecate.” In Brill’s New Pauly, edited by Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Christine F. Salazar, Manfred Landfester, and Francis G. Gentry. Published online 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e505900. The name “Hecate” (Greek Ἑκάτη, translit. Hekatē) is the feminine form of hekatos, an epithet of the god Apollo meaning “the one who works from afar.” But the true etymology of the name is uncertain. Moreover, the fact that Hecate had a Greek name does not necessarily mean that her cult originated in Greece (she more likely emerged from Caria in Asia Minor). [1] PronunciationIf Hecate's cult spread from Anatolia into Greece, then it possibly presented a conflict, as her role was already filled by other more prominent deities in the Greek pantheon, above all by Artemis and Selene. This line of reasoning lies behind the widely accepted hypothesis that she was a foreign deity who was incorporated into the Greek pantheon. Other than in the Theogony, the Greek sources do not offer a consistent story of her parentage or of her relations in the Greek pantheon. The polecat is also associated with Hecate. Antoninus Liberalis used a myth to explain this association: Well, I once come to doctor, seems there’s no serious health issue on me……I wonder if is the demon or some evil spirits is disturbing me..or just the OCD? Will god and godness be angry with these thoughts?(I really really really didn’t mean to think about those blasphemous things…) Will praying to the goddess help with this? Besides Samothrace and Aegina, we find express mention of her worship at Argos 16 and at Athens, where she had a sanctuary under the name of Epipyrgidia ( Ἐπιπυργιδία), on the acropolis, not far from the temple of Nike. 17 Small statues or symbolical representations of Hecate, called ἑκάταια ( hekataia), were very numerous, especially at Athens, where they stood before or in houses, and on spots where two roads crossed each other; and it would seem that people consulted such ἑκάταια as oracles. 18 At Athens, it is said there stood a statue of Hecate Triglathena, to whom the red mullet was offered in sacrifice. [44] After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes,

Orphic Hymns: The Orphics were a Greek cult that believed a blissful afterlife could be attained by living an ascetic life. Hecate is mentioned in the first of the Orphic Hymns (ca. third century BCE to second century CE).

Worker-from-afar." A mysterious divinity, who, according to the most common tradition, was a daughter of Persaeus or Perses and Asteria, whence she is called Perseis. 1 Others describe her as a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and state that she was sent out by her father in search of Persephone; 2 others again make her a daughter of Zeus either by Pheraea or by Hera; 3 and others, lastly, say that she was a daughter of Leto or Tartarus. 4 Homer does not mention her.

Hecate’s scope of divine duties was extensive in Ancient Greek religion. She was most notably the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, light, ghosts, necromancy, and the moon. Further, she was the goddess and protector of the oikos, and entranceways. Hecate's island (Ἑκάτης νήσου) also called Psamite (Ψαμίτη), was an islet in the vicinity of Delos. It was called Psamite, because Hecate was honoured with a cake, which was called psamiton (ψάμιτον). [102] The island is the modern Megalos (Great) Reumatiaris. [103] Deipnon [ edit ]Hecate was regularly invoked as the patron goddess of witches throughout Greek and Roman literature. Medea, the witch who helped Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece, was above all a devotee of Hecate. [28] Simaetha, whose story is told by the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, called on Hecate to help restore her lover Delphis to her. [29] Finally, Hecate features in the prayers of the Roman poet Horace’s Canidia, a cruel witch said to desecrate graves, kidnap, murder, poison, and torture. [30] Aristophanes, frag. 209, 608 K-A; Sophron, frag. 4.7 K-A; Plutarch, Roman Questions 280c, 290; Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.14.9; scholia on Aristophanes’ Peace 276; etc. ↩ It was probably her role as guardian of entrances that led to Hecate's identification by the mid fifth century with Enodia, a Thessalian goddess. Enodia's very name ("In-the-Road") suggests that she watched over entrances, for it expresses both the possibility that she stood on the main road into a city, keeping an eye on all who entered, and in the road in front of private houses, protecting their inhabitants. [60] Seneca: In the tragedy Medea (first century BCE or first century CE), Medea is closely associated with Hecate.

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