What can you tell me about the greek goddess hecate?

Answer 1

First off let me recommend a great book on the Goddess Hecate it is called ‘Crossroads: the path of Hecate.’ It’s a really good book if you are serious in learning more about the Goddess. I learned a lot reading that book. Another good place to look up information on Her is www.Hecatescauldron.com Good Website! Her origins and history are very complex so I highly recommend that you take a look at this site and read the book. You will be surprised at what you learn about Her J Hope this helps.

Answer 2

HECATE: was beieved by some to be descended fomr the titans. A Greek goddess with twop quite deparate aspects, in the day she was supposed to have a benign influence on farming, but during the hours of darkness she was interested in witchcraft, ghosts and tombs. In many ways similar to the vegetations goddedd Demeter. Hecate uncomfortably combined fertility with death as a power of the earth. The witch Medea, Jason's rejected colchian princess, used to invoke Hecate in her magic arts. Hecate is usually protrayed with three faces. The Athenians were particularly respectful towards her, and once a month they placed offerings of food at crossroads, where her influence was said to be felt.

Answer 3

Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. She is most often depicted as having three heads; one of a dog, one of a snake and one of a horse. She is usually seen with two ghost hounds that were said to serve her. Hecate is most often mispercepted as the goddess of witchcraft or evil, but she did some very good things in her time. One such deed was when she rescued Persephone, (Demeter's daughter, the queen of the Underworld and the maiden of spring), from the Underworld. Hecate is said to haunt a three-way crossroad, each of her heads facing in a certain direction. She is said to appear when the ebony moon shines.

Answer 4

Hecate, a divinity of the Underworld and companion of Persephone, is called the queen of night and the goddess of the cross-roads; her three faces are turned towards as many directions, and her name was shrieked at night at the cross-roads of cities. She is often seen bearing torches, and it is with them that she killed Clytius 6 in the course of the Gigantomachy. Hecate is regarded as supreme, both in Heaven and in the Underworld, and it is said that Zeus calls upon her whenever any man on earth offers sacrifices, and prays for favour.

Answer 5

Hecate, a divinity of the Underworld and companion of Persephone, is called the queen of night and the goddess of the cross-roads; her three faces are turned towards as many directions, and her name was shrieked at night at the cross-roads of cities. She is often seen bearing torches, and it is with them that she killed Clytius 6 in the course of the Gigantomachy. Hecate is regarded as supreme, both in Heaven and in the Underworld, and it is said that Zeus calls upon her whenever any man on earth offers sacrifices, and prays for favour.

Answer 6

Hecate, Hekate (Hekátē), or Hekat was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth originating from Thrace, or among the Carians of Anatolia. Popular cults venerating her as a mother goddess integrated her persona into Greek culture as Ἑκάτη. In Ptolemaic Alexandria she ultimately achieved her connotations as a goddess of sorcery and her role as the 'Queen of Ghosts', in which guise she was transmitted to post-Renaissance culture. Today she is often seen as a goddess of witchcraft and Wicca. She is also the equivalent of the Roman Trivia.

Answer 7

Despite popular belief, Hecate was not originally a Greek goddess. She is unknown to Homer and in fact the earliest written references to her are in Hesiod's Theogony. The place of origin of her cult is uncertain, but it is thought that she had popular cult followings in Thrace. Her most important sanctuary was Lagina, a theocratic city-state in which the goddess was served by eunuchs. Lagina, where the famous temple of Hecate drew great festal assemblies every year, lay close to the originally Macedonian colony of Stratonikea. In Thrace she played a role similar to that of lesser-Hermes, namely a governess of liminal points and the wilderness, bearing little resemblance to the night-walking crone. Additionally, this led to her role of aiding women in childbirth and the raising of young men.

Answer 8

Hecate was the mother goddess. Protector. She also went to saved Persephone from Hetis, the god of the underworld went he called her there. Persephone on the wings of a dragon flew there and was held captive, during which time the world went to winter and all died because Hecate, bringer of the life on earth, was to depressed to keep things alive. A deal was struck,(you'll have to look up the rest of that part) and with Persephone being aloud to be above ground for 6 months of the year, Hecate mother goddess, would bring life to Earth.
During the other 6 mths, winter would reign while her daughter was in the underworld.

That is a little about her. I also think that she was the mother of thor. Wife of Zeus, one of them...

Answer 9

Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. She is most often depicted as having three heads; one of a dog, one of a snake and one of a horse.This enables her all-seeing and all-knowing qualities
The Greek name for this originally Thracian and Anatolian goddess, first mentioned by Hesiod (ca. 700 B.C.E.), makes it obvious that she was regarded - in Greece - as a goddess of magic. The moon goddess Hecate has then become connected to death and the netherworld, to ghosts and the hounds of hell. People tried to appease her by blood-sacrifices of lambs and puppies.
She is also regarded as the mother of a vampiric, demonic group of goddesses known as the Empusae. Based on all of these associations, Hecate became one of the major deities concerning all types of enchantment, sorcery and witchcraft.

An interesting theory, put forward by Barbara Gordon Walker, sees Hecate as being derived from the Egyptian goddess Heqit and from the pre-dynastic Egyptian term heq, "tribal matriarch". Unfortunately, Mrs. Walker does not supply us with evidence for her claim.

In Medea then [they found] going from chamber to chamber in search of her sister, for Hera detained her within that day; but beforetime she was not wont to haunt the palace, but all day long was busied in Hecate's temple, since she herself was the priestess of the goddess.
The Argonautica (ll. 210-259)

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Answer 10

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