I mentioned some time ago in an article I Hecate reproducing the Mystery Magazine under a general tribute to the goddess. Below you will find the article in its original format before editing the coefficients of a magazine and deserves to get the issue only to improvements in the text and the picture.
Of all the Panhellenic deities whose worship and recognition of the people was widespread throughout the Greek world, the one that plagues most scholars seem to be the 'dark' Daughter, Hecate. The goddess seems to always be covered with a veil of mystery, which are already in ancient fm 200 times contradictory literary references, the scarce archaeological findings and the sacramental nature of worship not help us to roll up. She is the goddess, the virgin daughter with torches that accompany Persephone is the powerful titan with power over heaven and earth sea, perhaps the archetypal fm 200 form of witch until today inspires others and other terrorists? This article will try dunking the ancient sources and contemporary research to shed some light on these questions usually surround the goddess, fm 200 in order to become probably the most authentic accessible to today existent 'servants' of.
Although the name of the Greek goddess obviously, fm 200 the female adjective cent attributed to Apollo and usually explained as an abbreviation of Ekativolos (who put away from), fm 200 scholars disagree about the origin with most receiving a non-Greek , with predominantly Asian (Caria) origin. The Farnel 'sees' fm 200 a northern Thracian origin more probable. Even stronger seems the comments attributed to non-Greek origin mainly the 'infernal' character of the goddess which came from ancient practices, aspects and rituals that seem to lie in the region of Greek ritual practice and perception.
Despite wide anagnorisimotita goddess, no mythical cycle dedicated to it (which fm 200 reinforces these perceptions of scholars) and mythological references that we are usually delayed and always in conjunction with other 'basic' deities which Hecate seems to accompany . Nevertheless, and to strengthen the difficult and contradictory nature of our first sources (both written by archeology) is clearly Greek.
So although the Homeric epics ignore the goddess, there is an extensive reference - the extent and nature of which is a function of the absence of epics complicate even more restricted and in Hesiod's Theogony, which is also the first literary reference to it. In his work, therefore, the 'theologian' poet devotes an unprecedented digression of narrating history, more than 50 verses (very interesting if we consider that in the other two verses poem Hesiod may have 'passed' the gods 4-5) for Hecate.
There we learn that the goddess is the daughter of the Titans Perses: Perseus and Starfish, genealogy which follow and the subsequent mythology with some minor exceptions eg Aristaios / Astraios father (according to Pherecydes) NYX mother (according to Bacchylides) simply enhance fm 200 the effective connection of the goddess with the old generation of the night and the night light. With this background, the goddess resembles Apollo and Artemis -with that throughout antiquity that much identical, as Phoebe's fm 200 mother Starfish and Leto. Subsequently Hesiod informs us that the goddess was honored as anyone else from the father of gods and men Zeus - as had taken place - and thus retained the powers he had before the Titans. These include fm 200 according to Hesiod:
Power in three parts of the world. Sky, Sea and chthonic here meant the land without regard to the subsequent 'infernal' character: Urania, Chthonia, fm 200 Einalia
With the above simple registration as lists of forces / property attributed to the goddess fm 200 Hesiod easily observe from the outset not only versatile often contradictory character of the goddess and two more interesting points. First it forces the concern about the whole range of divine and coated with basic features Olympian deities and secondly that absent the most famous and foremost we would say later relationship with the underworld and the dead.
This relationship begins to appear in the second basic mythological reference to the goddess who is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which also represents a poetic reference to the mythical context
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