Season 6 Episode 2: Hekate, the Goddess of Magick

In this episode I delve into a little bit of the origins, lineage, mystery and history of one of the most well known goddesses of magick, the amazing Greek goddess Hekate. We look at her role as the goddess of the crossroads, necromancy and witchcraft. I also find some spells in the Greek Magical Papyri that relate to her and end on a telling of the Homeric poem to Demeter, in which Hekate informs Demeter of Persephones abduction.

Links here for sources used:

Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Theogony. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D404 

Ovids’ Metamorphosis: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21765/21765-h/21765-h.htm

                                      https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph6.htm

Athanassia Zografou: https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/3876?lang=en

Theoi website: https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Hekate.html

Homeric poem to Demeter translated by Gregory Nagy: https://uh.edu/~cldue/texts/demeter.html?ref=mitosymas.com

Greek Magical Papyri:  https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Magical-Papyri-Translation-Including/dp/0226044475 

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