Also, because she is an only child, the goddess receives not less honour, but much more still, for Zeus honours her. The son of Kronos did her no wrong nor took anything away of all that was her portion among the former Titan gods : but she holds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both in earth, and in heaven, and in sea. For as many as were born of Gaia (Gaea, the Earth) and Ouranos (Uranus, Heaven) amongst all these she has her due portion. Great honour comes full easily to him whose prayers the goddess receives favourably, and she bestows wealth upon him for the power surely is with her. For to this day, whenever any one of men on earth offers rich sacrifices and prays for favour according to custom, he calls upon Hekate. She received honour also in starry heaven, and is honoured exceedingly by the deathless gods. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea.
And she conceived and bare Hekate (Hecate) whom Zeus the son of Kronos (Cronus) honoured above all. "Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
He does, however, know her as a night-time goddess of witchcraft as demonstrated by the naming of her parents-her father is Perses, "the Destroyer", a name connected with both Persephone the goddess of the underworld and Perseis the mother of the witches Aeetes and Kirke (Circe), while her mother is Asteria, "the Starry One", a goddess of the night. She was usually regarded as the goddess of witchcraft but it is unclear whether Hesiod is actually describing the benefits of magical incantations or simply the results of standard prayers to her divinity. Hesiod attributes a wide range of powers to the goddess Hekate in the following passage.
This page contains hymns to the goddess and descriptions of her divine role, including invocations to her by witches and necromancers in literature.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES HYMNS TO HECATE I. HEKATE (Hecate) was the goddess of the night, witchcraft and ghosts.
Worker from Afar Hecate, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., State Hermitage Museum
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