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Hecate's Deipnon is, at its most basic, a meal served to Hecate and the restless dead once a lunar month [107] during the Dark Moon. On the night of the dark moon, a meal would be set outside, in a small shrine to Hecate by the front door; as the street in front of the house and the doorway create a crossroads, known to be a place Hecate dwelled.
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.
Drawing of a Hekataion, depicting Hecate as a triple goddess surrounding a central column. According to Robert Graves, Hecate was the "original" and most predominant ancient triple moon goddess. Hecate was represented in triple form from the early days of her worship - although contrary to popular belief, all three forms were usually shown as ...
Hecato or Hecaton of Rhodes (Greek: Ἑκάτων; fl. c. 100 BC) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. [1]He was a native of Rhodes, and a disciple of Panaetius, [2] but nothing else is known of his life.
The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, often referred as The Triple Hecate or simply Hecate, is a 1795 work of art by the English artist and poet William Blake which depicts Enitharmon, a female character in his mythology, or Hecate, a chthonic Greco-Roman goddess of magic and the underworld. The work presents a nightmarish scene with fantastic creatures.
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 .
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