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Nyx, goddess and personification of the night; Selene, Titaness goddess and personification of the moon; Thanatos, the personification of death, the son of Nyx and Erebus and twin brother of Hypnos; Roman. Diana Trivia, goddess of the hunt, the moon, crossroads, equivalent to the Greek goddesses Artemis and Hecate
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.
The Greek goddess Hecate portrayed in triplicate. A triple deity is a deity with three apparent forms that function as a singular whole. Such deities may sometimes be referred to as threefold, tripled, triplicate, tripartite, triune, triadic, or as a trinity.
Hecate, the chthonic Greek goddess associated with magic, witchcraft, necromancy, and three-way crossroads, [21] appears as the master of the Three Witches. In ancient Greek religion, Hecate as goddess of childbirth is identified with Artemis, [22] who was the leader (ηγεμόνη: hegemone) of the nymphs. [23]
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 ...
The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
The ancient Greek nymphē in the first line can mean "nymph", but also "bride" or "young woman". [4] Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness ) in their own Orphic hymns. [ 11 ]