Ä Area: Magick ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Msg#: 243 Date: 05-23-96 14:43
From: Gwenny The Pooh Read: Yes Replied: No
To: Manuel Lugo Mark:
Subj: Necronomicon
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Hi, Manuel!
Saturday May 18 1996 01:19, Manuel Lugo wrote to Pat Sherman:
ML> What does Hecat‚ means?
"One of the oldest Greek versions of lthe trinitarian Goddess, Hecate was
derived from the Eqyptian midwife-goddess Hequit, Heket, or Hekat, who in turn
evolved from the _heq_ or tribal matriarch of pre-dynastic Egypt: a
wise-woman, in command of all the hekau or "mother's Words of Power."
"As a heavenly midwife amalgamating the Seven Hathors of the birth-chamber,
Heqit delivered the sun god every morning. Her totem was the frog, symbol of
the fetus; and this animal was still sacred to her four thousand years later
when she became the Christian's 'queen of the witches.'"
"In Greece, Hecate was one of many names for the original feminie trinity,
ruling heaven, earth, and the underworld. Hellens tended to emphasize her
Crone or underworld aspect, but continued to magic, divination, or
consultation with the dead. Her images guarded three-way crossroadsfor many
centuries; thus she was Hecate Trevia, "Hecate of the Three Ways." Offerings
were left at her roadside shrines invoked by those who set out on journeys,
like the biblical king of Babylon, who 'stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he
consulted with images.' (Ezekial 21:12)"
. . . .
"During the early Middles Ages, Hecate became known as Queen of the
Ghostworld, or Queen of Witches. She was especially diabolized by Catholic
authorites who said the people most dangerous to the fiath were precisely
those whom Hecate patronized: the midwives. Her ancient threefold power was
copied, however, by priestly writers who reassigned itto their own diety:
'The threefold of Christ, namely in Heaven, in earth, and in Hell.' "
(_A Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_ by Barbara Walker)
Gwenny
... My mind is made up. Do not confuse me with facts.
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Ä Area: Mytho ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Msg#: 113 Date: 06-12-96 00:54
From: James Nerlinger Read: Yes Replied: No
To: All Mark:
Subj: Hecate
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*** Hecat ***
In Greek mythology, the daughter of the Titans Perses and Asteria.
Hecate was invoked as a powerful goddess for good and evil in heaven and
on earth. She was later associated with Persephone, whom she
accompanied when the maiden was returned from the underworld, and with
Artemis as goddess of moonless nights and crossways. She was considered
the personification of the wise witch, the chief goddess of spells.
Literal meaning of the name Hecate is "she who works her will". She was
probably derived from the Carians in southwest Asia Minor. Hesiod
assigns power to her over heaven, earth, and sea; hence she bestows
wealth and all the blessings of daily life.
With torch in hand, Hecate assisted in the search for Persephone. (Thus,
pillars called Hecataea stood at crossroads and doorways, theoretically
to keep away evil spirits.) At dawn on the tenth day following the
abduction, Demeter met Hecate, who suggested that they go together to
speak with Helios, God of the Sun. Helios told them that Demeter's
brother Hades had kidnapped Persephone and taken her to the underworld
to be his unwilling bride. Furthermore, he said that the abduction and
rape had been sanctioned by Zeus. He told Demeter to stop weeping and
accept the situation; Hades was after all "not an unworthy son-in-law,"
and Persephone would become his co-ruler as Queen of the Underworld.
Demeter refused this advise, and withdrew herself from Mt. Olympus.
After Persephone emerged from the underworld, Hecate was her constant
companion.
Hecat was originally depicted as single-formed, clad in a long robe,
holding burning torches; later she became triple-formed, with three
bodies standing back-to-back, so that she could look in all directions
at once from the crossroads. This triple-form has also been envisioned
as a moon trinity: Selene ruling in heaven, Artemis on earth, and Hecate
in the uncanny and mysterious underworld. In the mythic imagination of
male-dominated cultures, her original nature, like that of many other
goddesses, became distorted, and she took on horrifying proportions.
With her vicious hounds of hell, she stalked men at crossroads on dark
nights; hence her characterization as one aspect of the Dark Goddess.
The inherent nature of the original Dark Goddess, who brought both death
and rebirth, has been repressed and denied for thousands of years. The
Dark Goddess became conceptualized as malefic. She was feared as the
Fates who, at the moment of birth determine the time of death and whose
decree is irrevocable; as Nemesis, the Goddess of Judgment and swift
retribution; as the Furies, who will hound a man to madness and death.
She also terrorized men as Medea, who killed her children; Circ, who
transformed men into pigs; Medusa, who turned them into stone; the
Lamia, who sucked their blood; Lilith, who seduced them in order to
breed demons from their sperm; and Hecate, Queen of the Witches, who
snatched them into the underworld.
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