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- Aristophanes, Plutus 410 - (trans. O'Neill) However according to a scholion on Aristophanes found in the Suda,(Suda Epsilon 363, C10th CE, trans. W. Hutton) it was widely known that the poor would take the offerings and this was even encouraged by the goddess. "From her (Hekate) one may learn whether it is better to be rich or to go hungry.
Hecate, Greek goddess of the crossroads; drawing by Stéphane Mallarmé in Les Dieux Antiques, nouvelle mythologie illustrée in Paris, 1880. Hecate has been characterized as a pre-Olympian chthonic goddess. The earliest literary source to mention Hecate is the Theogony (c. 700 BCE) of Hesiod: [127]
Requests and offerings to Diana may include small baked clay or bread statuettes of body parts in need of healing; small clay images of mother and child; tiny sculptures of stags; dance and song; and fruit such as apples. In addition, offerings of garlic are made to the Goddess of the Dark Moon, Hecate, during the festival.
Relief triplicate Hekate marble - The Goddess Hekate resides at crossroads. A herma was a statue associated with Hermes. It was used to mark boundaries and crossroads in ancient Greece, and thought to ward off evil. Museum of Ancient Messene, Greece.
Alföldi interpreted the numismatic image as the Latin Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess, and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate," noting that Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo ("keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi") is addressed by Horace as diva triformis ("three-form goddess"). [8]
The goddess Hecate was so important to Stratonicea that her likeness appeared on coins of the independent city after 167/166 BCE. [9] Seleucid kings conducted a considerable construction effort in the sacred ground of Lagina and transformed it into a foremost religious center of its time. Lagina and Stratonicea were connected to each other by a ...
According to a scholium on Homer's Iliad, the Lampades are among the types of nymphs mentioned by the lyric poet Alcman (fl. seventh century BC); the scholiast describes them as the nymphs "who carry torches and lights with Hecate", [2] a description which Timothy Gantz claims was probably a creation of the scholiast, rather than of Alcman or another writer. [3]
Articles relating to the goddess Hecate, who is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, night, light, magic, witchcraft, the Moon, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, graves, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery. She is thought to have originated in Heqet, Egyptian goddess of witchcraft, fertility and childbirth.