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In one version of Hecate's parentage, she is the daughter of Perses not the son of Crius but the son of Helios, whose mother is the Oceanid Perse. [77] Karl Kerenyi noted the similarity between the names, perhaps denoting a chthonic connection among the two and the goddess Persephone; [ 78 ] it is possible that this epithet gives evidence of a ...
According to Robert Graves, Empusa was a demigoddess, the beautiful daughter of the goddess Hecate and the spirit Mormo. She feasted on blood by seducing young men as they slept (see sleep paralysis), before drinking their blood and eating their flesh. When she spotted a man sleeping on the road, she attacked him, little knowing he was Zeus ...
Circe (/ ˈ s ər s iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κίρκη : Kírkē) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. [2] In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse.
Likewise, Semos of Delos (FGrHist 396 F 22) says that Crataeis was the daughter of Hecate and Triton, and mother of Scylla by Deimos. Stesichorus (alone) names Lamia as the mother of Scylla, possibly the Lamia who was the daughter of Poseidon, [6] while according to Hyginus, Scylla was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. [7]
Although distinct from the Titan known as Perses, who is known for fathering Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica made Perses of Colchis the father of Hecate by an unknown mother; Perses' brother Aeëtes then married Hecate and had Medea and Circe by her. [11]
'of the stars, starry one') is a daughter of the Titans Coeus (Polus) and Phoebe and the sister of Leto. According to Hesiod, by the Titan Perses she had a single child, a daughter named Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft. Other authors made Asteria the mother of the fourth Heracles and Hecate by Zeus.
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").
Hanham refers to Montgomery's Flyting as "Nicneven's earliest, and indeed only authentic, literary appearance," dismissing the views of Scott, Cromek, and others who call Nicneven "the Scottish Hecate." In the Flyting, Nicneven is a worshipper of Hecate. Jacqueline Simpson pointed out that the term "gyr-carlings" does appear in Polwart's ...