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Hecate (/ ˈ h ɛ k ə t i / HEK-ə-tee) [a] is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, [4] and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied.
Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate. She first appears in Hesiod 's Theogony around 700 BCE, [ 2 ] but is best known from Euripides 's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes 's epic Argonautica .
Hecate – The goddess of magic, who is an ally of Kronos in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, but does support the gods against Gaea. Her empousai minions and her daughter Circe is a feminist that morphs men into pigs and torments Percy in The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Sea of Monsters , respectively.
Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.
Her brothers were Aeëtes, keeper of the Golden Fleece and father of Medea, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë , the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur . [ 5 ] Other accounts make her and her niece Medea the daughters of Hecate , the goddess of witchcraft [ 6 ] by Aeëtes, [ 7 ] usually said to be her brother instead.
Phoebe's consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, first Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and then Asteria, a star goddess who bore an only daughter, Hecate. [7] Hesiod in the Theogony describes Phoebe as "χρυσοστέφανος" (khrysostéphanos, meaning "golden-crowned"). [1]
Hecate, founded in 2012, has projects planned to produce more than 40 gigawatts in development. It develops solar and wind power plants and energy storage projects across the United States, many ...
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.