Will you bow down before Hecate?

Question

or no candy for you!

She's a goddess that started the pagan holiday halloween..

I did do my research! see!
"Hecate, the Titan earth mother of the wizards and witches, illustrates perhaps better than any other ancient goddess, the connection between Wicca, the Celtic Halloween traditions.

As the dark goddess of witchcraft, Hecate, like Isis, was worshiped with impure rites and magical incantations. Her name was probably derived from the ancient Egyptian word Heka ("sorcery" or "magical"), which may explain her association with the Egyptian frog goddess of the same name. This may also explain the affiliation of frogs with witchcraft, and the various potions of frog-wart and "hecateis" (Hecate's hallucinogenic plant, also called Aconite), which supposedly sprouted from the spittle of Cerberus (Hade's three-headed guard dog) that fell to the ground when Hercules forced him to the surface of the earth.

Because her devotees practiced such magic wherever three paths joined, Hecate was known by the Romans as Trivia ( tri "three," and via "roads")."

Hecate's familiar (the night owl) announced the acceptance of the oblations, and those who gathered on the eve of the full moon perceived the spooky sound of the creature as a good omen. Statues of the goddess bearing the triple-face of a dog, a snake, and a horse, overshadowed the dark rituals when they were performed at the crossing of three roads. At midnight, Hecate's devotees left food offerings at the intersection for the goddess ('Hecate's Supper'), and, once deposited, quickly exited without turning around or looking back. Sometimes the offerings consisted of honey cakes and chicken hearts. At other time's puppies, honey, and female black lambs were slaughtered for the goddess and her strigae.

She's the halloween goddess, damn you people!

Answer 1

I have, on more than one occasion. She's very good to me. Goddess Bless you, walk with Gaia.

Answer 2

Hecate is a Greek Goddess of rebirth, she is a torch bearer, a gate keeper, the watcher of ways. She is Persephone's handmaiden, she is beautiful, not a crone. She heard the cries of Persephone when she was taken into the underworld and with Helios, the sun, aided Demeter in discovering the truth. She escorts Persephone back each autumn and stays in her place when she returns in the spring so that the Earth can be renewed. She was the Goddess of herbalists and of the occult(Because she travels between all realms). Her priestesses were trained in the herbal arts and were feared as poisoners and revered as healers and midwives. When the Romans took her up, as they did everybody, they gave her three faces, as the keeper of ways, so she can look three ways at once and she was given a fearful aspect that never existed before.

Hecate has nothing to do with Halloween, as Halloween is Samhain, a Celtic holiday that celebrated the end of the year and the harvest and was reserved for remembering the beloved dead. Hecate is a Greek Goddess. Why would she have anything to do with a holiday celebrated on the British Isles???

However, Hecate can be invoked on Halloween (and any time) to assist with travel and communication between the worlds. She would at that time have already escorted the Queen Persephone to her throne and residing in Olympus in her place until spring time when they switch places.

And yes, I do worship Hecate, and many other Gods and Goddesses.

Answer 3

Goodness, you need to do some research! Hekate was originally (many thousands of years ago) a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth. She was incorporated into the Greek panthology when they began to trade and have relations with Anatolia. It was only during the last few centuries or so that she was known as Queen of Ghosts. She is also known by many Witches these days as the Queen of Witches, although I think that has more to do with her connections to sorcery in the late millenium B.C.E.

Halloween, on the other hand, is a partially-Christianized Celtic-pagan tradition. It means "All-Hallowe-Even," or the evening before All Saints' Day, honoring the Catholic saints. However, before that it was All Saint's Day, it was a day meant to honor all the dead relations and heros gone before, the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead was celebrated by Celtic pagans as both the day when the barriers between the spirit world and the physical world are lowest and as the beginning of winter, which they associated with human death (for good reason in those days!). The Celts wore masks to scare off evil spirits, and food was left on doorsteps for the good spirits. This translated in the 19th century as full costumes. Also, during their invasions the Romans added their own traditional celebrations for that time of year, which was a celebration for a good harvest combined with a day for honoring the dead.

So, you see, it was not Hecate who created Halloween. It has many deeper roots. Even though Hecate may be associated with dark magick at different times throughout history, it's still fact that the celebration that predates Halloween also predates her arrival in its original culture!

Oh, and yes, I do see Hecate as one of the faces of the Goddess Whom I worship.

Answer 4

No, but many of my friends will. Hecate is the Crone aspect of the moon goddess, correct? Mother, Maiden, Crone...At least that's how it sounds like it goes in the chants.

Answer 5

Yeah, I want the candy!

Plus she's the goddess of magic, man I'd love to be like Circe.

Long live greek "mythology"

Answer 6

No. But I'd kneel before Zod.

Answer 7

Eh, when in Rome. Besides, they're all the same. You worship one god, you worship them all.

Answer 8

No way!!!



http://www.biblebelievers.com/SimpleSalvation.html

Answer 9

what kind of candy are we talking about here? if its jawbreakers them I'm all in.

Answer 10

Yes, I will. I have a lot of respect for her, as I am pagan. :)