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	Hekate (Hecate): The Dark Goddess
		Hekate is therefore a cousin to Artemis, with whom she is often associated, and a reappearance of the great goddess Phoibe, whose name poets give to the moon.
		Hekate was also a key figure in reuniting the mother and daughter in the story of Persephone's abduction into the underworld by Hades, and her periodic return to her mother, Demeter.
		Hekate is the archetypal shaman as she moves between worlds in a fluid and facile way She bridges the visible and invisible realities delving for insight into the magical realms for the ultimate purpose of effecting a healing and regeneration.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/MysticalArts/Hekate.html (4289 words)

	Hekate: Moving Through Darkness
		Hekate was relegated to a lesser role as guardian of the Western Gate of the Underworld and guide at the triple-crossroad, where her lighted torches directed the spirits on their way to either Asphodel Meadows, Tartarus, or the Orchards of Elysium.
		Hekate's cauldron was said to contain slips of yew, and this tree was said to root in the mouths of the dead and release their souls, as well as absorb the odors of the rotting flesh.
		Hekate was believed to be the cause for the condition of lunacy, which the ancients believed was caused by her sending prophetic visions to humanity through moonlight.
	home.comcast.net /~subrosa_florens/witch/hekate.html (10064 words)

	The Horned Owl Library: Hekate in Ancient Greek Religion
		This is in keeping with every ancient portrayal of Hekate as a girl or young woman, and contrasts completely with the common modern image of Her as a crone.
		On the contrary, the normal image of Hekate, chthonic or otherwise, is as a young woman.
		Hekate as Crone only begins to appear in late Roman literature, and even then it is far from universal and likely was derived from Her portrayal as being hideous: old age and ugliness was (and is) a common stereotypical pairing.
	www.islandnet.com /~hornowl/HekateArticle.html (3027 words)

	The Three Faces of Hekate
		Hekate is depicted as the guardian of the doorway to the Sanctuary on a Greek vase found at Eleusis, and shown carrying torches in a sculpture just outside the Sanctuary.
		Hekate is patron to all who stand on the boundary between life and death, midwives, healers and witches.
		Hekate is much more than Dark Crone: It is Hekate who guides the Soul and the Seeker, Hekate who blesses a child's birth and Hekate who brings abundance to those who honour Her.
	hekate.timerift.net /whois.htm (2054 words)

	Goddesses and Priestesses Connected to Hera
		In fact, this may even be the ultimate source of Hekate's association with the Moon, which can't be verified until this time, when the waning and dark times of the month were dedicated to her, a bare gloss over her real concern, the dark underworld associated with the dead.
		In thoroughly contradictory fashion, Hekate was believed to preside over the welcoming ritual for a new child, always performed seven days after her or his birth301.
		Hekate was sometimes even considered Hera's daughter, suggesting that like Persephone she could easily blur from a crone to a maiden figure and vice versa.
	www.moonspeaker.ca /Hera/hekate.html (3225 words)

	Norwich Moot Essays: The Ancient Mysteries of Hekate
		Hekate is one of the most ambiguous of the goddesses of classical antiquity, and is one of the most difficult to come to terms with.
		Hekate today seems to be associated with healing, especially mental healing, in a way that is different in character from historical examples.
		Although Hekate's claim to be the "Witches' Goddess" has always been contested by Diana, she had an honoured role from the beginning of Gerald Gardener's revival of the craft.
	www.norwichmoot.paganearth.com /hekate.htm (3733 words)

	Sacred to Hecate
		All wild animals are sacred to Hekate and She sometimes appears three headed as dog, horse and bear or dog, snake and lion.
		Hekate is sometimes identified with the with three-headed dog Kerebos, who guards the entrance to Hades, and there may be connections with the Egyptian dog-headed god Annubis, who conducted souls to the Underworld.
		Samhain is especially significant to Hekate, but several Festival days are celebrated in Her honour: The 13th August is the time to ask for Her blessing on the coming harvest, for as Goddess of Storms Hekate has the power to destroy the crop before it can be cut.
	hekate.timerift.net /sacred.htm (2101 words)

	HECATE : Greek goddess of witchcraft, ghosts & magic ; mythology ; pictures : HEKATE
		Hekate was identified with various goddesses, including Artemis and Selene (Moon), the sea-goddess Krataeis, the goddess of the Taurian Khersonese (of Skythia), the Kolkhian Perseis, and Argive Iphigeneia, the Thracian goddesses Bendis and Kotys, Euboian Maira (the dog-star), Eleusinian Daeira and the Boiotian Nymphe Herkyna.
		Hekate was usually regarded as the goddess of witchcraft, though it is unclear whether Hesiod is describing her benefits as being derived from the use of magical incantations or merely general prayers to her divinity.
		Hekate was a torch-bearing goddess of the night, the leader of haunting ghosts and inspirer of the night-time baying of hounds.
	www.theoi.com /Khthonios/Hekate.html (9991 words)

	Hekate, Goddess Of The Crossroads
		Hekate has the ability to travel between the worlds because Zeus bestowed unto Her a portion of the Earth and of the Sea, for Her ruling.
		Hekate was known to the Romans as Diana Lucifera.
		Multi-tasking, as another of her functions as Keeper of the Crossroads, Hekate is also the Queen of the Dead, who guides souls of women that have passed out of this life, into the Underworld, to rest and prepare for their next incarnation.
	www.aztriad.com /hekate.html (811 words)

	The Hekate FAQ - frequently asked questions
		Hekate got her lunar associations through identification with the Thracian Bendis, and conflation (the combining or blending of two separate things into one) with Artemis.
		Krokopeplos, saffron-cloaked, occurs in the Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
		This could refer to her realms of earth, sea, and sky; or it could be a way of referring to her role as a goddess of crossroads, meaning that she could see in, and be approached from, any direction.
	www.hekate.nu /default.cfm?page=home (1720 words)

	The History Of Hekate - Tarot by Olympias
		Hekate is associated with being a fertility Goddess and credited as the "Nurse" (kourotrophos, "From the Beginning") to all living beings - (The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology, 1970).
		In Homer's Hymn To Demeter, Hekate hears the cries of the Kore (Persephone) when she was kidnapped by Hades to reign as his Queen of the Underworld.
		Hekate is noted as the benefactress of Circe the Sorceress and Medea the witch.
	www.tarotbyolympias.com /olylakegoddess.html (703 words)

	CULT OF HEKATE : Ancient Greek religion
		Hekate was one of the chief goddesses of the Eleusinian Mysteries, alongside Demeter and Persephone.
		Hekate was worshipped on Psamite an islet in the vicinity of Delos.
		Hekate had a number of cult titles, variously referring to her cult functions and the locations of her shrines.
	www.theoi.com /Cult/HekateCult.html (2065 words)

	Owlspirit's Nest - Hekate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Hekate does not "star" in a lot of myths, but one where she does appear points to her role as guide between the worlds.
		Hekate's connection to the Underworld later became the most well known aspect of the goddess.
		This is a night to leave food at crossroads and to ask Hekate's blessing in her role of heavenly midwife as well as a good night for divination, meditation and prophesy.
	owlspirit.tripod.com /hekate2.html (1033 words)

	Hekate
		The second reason Hekate had begun to be looked at in a dark light was her honor as a guardian of gateways in temples, crossroads, and entrances where spirits may lurk.
		Hekate is a Goddess associated with death and rebirth and is considered in modern Paganism and Wicca as the Crone aspect of the triple Goddess.
		Hekate is often prayed to when a child is born and the umbilical cord is cut, thus another association with the crossing over from one world or plane to the next.
	www.paganforum.com /index.php?topic=8244.msg119345 (4446 words)

	The Goddess Hekate
		Hekate is a much heard of, but little understood, Goddess of the Pan-Hellenic pantheon.
		Her cult was among the most vigorous of the ancient Pagan world as evidenced by the condemnations of the 11th century Church against offerings left to Her at the places where three roads meet.
		Attached to Farnell’s articles is a “Geographical Register of Centers of Hekate Worship”, invaluable to understanding the spread of Hekate’s cult.
	www.hermetic.com /webster/hekate-review.html (872 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Goddess Hekate in Myth and Art
		While her association with the dark mysteries of the Underworld places this goddess in the chthonian category (the word chthonian refers to the earth or Underworld), it is important to note that Hekate was also involved with several Olympian deities.
		Hekate was also associated with crossroads in mythology and legend, for it was believed that these areas were important in magical rituals.
		In Roman mythology, Hekate was known as Trivia (the goddess of crossroads).
	www.loggia.com /myth/hekate.html (428 words)

	Hekate
		Hekates' knife represents Her role in cutting the umbilical cord from birth to life as well as severing the link between the body and spirit at death.
		Hekate was sent to the Underworld after incurring the wrath of Hera for stealing a pot of rouge for Europa, who was one of Zeus's lovers.
		As the power of the Solar Gods rose, Hekate became increasingly demonized, until by the Middle Ages She was reduced to a parody of an evil crone.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/pontoon/2457/id110.htm (2381 words)

	Goddess Hecate / Hekate, Guardian Goddess at the Gate
		There are approximately twelve centuries of recorded Hekate worship (from the eighth century BCE to the fourth century CE), including the original Greek contexts and the later Roman ones (when She, along with the rest of Greek religion, was appropriated by the Roman culture-builders).
		Hekate Propylaia -- "the one before the gate" -- a guardian goddess whose statue was often at the entrance to major temples of other deities, primarily Demeter, or at the entrance to private homes
		However, there is evidence that Hekate evolved from the Egyptian midwife goddess Heqit, (alternatively spelt 'Heket' or 'Hekat'.) The frog headed goddess Heqit assisted with the daily birth of the Sun and was associated with the apparently magical germination of the seemingly lifeless corn seed.
	www.goddessmystic.com /CoreCurriculum/Goddesses/Hekate/index.shtml (662 words)

	Rite of Hekate
		Although it is not our 'Hekate Night' ritual, nor it is our Dark Moon honoring of our patron Goddess, it is indeed a ritual that can be performed if you would honor Hekate as your patron Goddess.
		Dark Mother, Hekate, Keeper of the Great Cauldron of life, I call upon You to be here with me now.
		Goddess of Transformation, She who holds the Knife that cuts the cord from birth to life, and life to death; to Thee is sacred the snake which casts off its skin to be reborn, the fl dog howling at the ever changing Moon and the eternal yew, which brings both life and death.
	members.aol.com /laehar3/patron/hekateritual.html (594 words)

	Hekate, Triple Goddess of the Moon, Earth and Underworld--Moon Goddess Hecate Hekate Earth goddess Underworld Goddess ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Hekate is said to have come from Thrace, a land the Greeks considered barbaric, and most accounts name Her daughter of the Titans Perses (by some accounts brother to
		As Hekate Trioditis ("Goddess of Crossroads") or Trivia (the Latin form of the word), She protected crossroads, especially those where three roads met, and is shown in triple form standing back to back to back, sighting down each road.
		Sacrifices were made to her on the last day of the month in the Greek lunar calendar, at the dark of the moon.
	www.thaliatook.com /hekate.html (401 words)

	The Hekate FAQ - about
		Midwifery, as a result of conflation with Artemis and Eileithuia (the goddess of child-birth, and an epithet sometimes used for Hekate) and her association with dogs.
		According to some accounts, Hekate is the daughter of Leto.
		You may put a copy of this FAQ on your web site, as long as you add a link back to http://www.hekate.nu, where the most recent version can be found.
	www.hekate.nu /default.cfm?page=about (435 words)

	Orphic Hymn to Hekate
		Ouranian, Chthonian, te kai Einalian: This trio of epithets proclaims the power of Hekatê in all three divisions of the world in Greek cosmology, as represented in the threefold partition among the Three Brothers --- Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon.
		Bakcheuosan: This verb is sometimes used to mean simply “to revel,” but in the context of the Orphic Mystery cults, which have the Mysteries of Dionysos at their very core, the literal translation which I have employed is almost certainly the correct one.
		Nykterian: As Hekatê was called Nykteria, “She of the Night,” Dionysos was known as Nykterios.
	www.hermeticfellowship.org /OrphicHymnHekate.html (514 words)

	Hekate
		Hekate is the Goddess associated with witchcraft and the underworld.
		Changed to Hekate after finding many others using Bandit or Thunder.
		Hekate stuck after game play and became my user ID, changing from Silver Blaze.
	tradewars.fament.com /guardian/playerhekate.htm (198 words)

	Honoring Hekate
		None of these belong to Inner Light Coven, as we keep ours private, but these give you some idea of what you, yourself, may compose to honor this Goddess.
		he Athenians were especially respectful towards Hekate and She was often invoked in midnight rituals.
		Her worshipers gathered at crossroads once a month to share 'Hekate Suppers', and then placed the leftovers outdoors as offerings.
	members.aol.com /laehar3/patron/hekatehonor.html (214 words)

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