DARK GODDESS - HECATE

  Dark goddess Hecate is the goddess of all crossroads, gazing in three directions at the same time. In ancient times, sorcerers gathered at crossroads to pay homage to her. Three-headed statues of her were set up at many road intersections, and secret rites were performed under the full moon to appease her. Statues of Hecate carrying torches or swords were also erected in front of homes to keep evil spirits at bay.

Hecate is a powerful goddess with chthonic associations who is the patron of magic and witchcraft. She has three aspects: goddess of fertility and plenty, goddess of the moon, and queen of the night, ghosts, and shades. She possesses infernal power, roaming the earth at night in wild pursuit, with a pack of dogs, and an entourage of dead souls. She is the cause of nightmares and insanity and is so terrifying that many ancients referred to her only as “The Nameless One.” She is the goddess of the dark of the moon, the destroyer of life, but also the restorer of life. In one myth, she turns into a bear and kills her own son, then revives him to life. In her dark aspect, she wears a necklace made of a phallus and testicles with her hair made of twisting snakes, which, as do the snakes of Medusa, petrify those who gaze upon them.

Hecate was introduced to Greece as early as the early archaic age (7-8th century BCE). Propaganda was resorted to on behalf of her cult, as is apparent in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, in which she is praised as omnipotent. In Greece, she was always the goddess of witchcraft and sorcery who walked at the crossroads on moonless nights, accompanied by evil ghosts and barking dogs. Offerings were thrown out to her at the crossroads, and her image was triple because she had to look in three directions. She was often called Enodia (she of the roads), and at all events, Hecate was accepted by the Greeks because there was a place for a goddess of witchcraft and ghosts. Her popularity is accounted for by this fact, and it proves that base superstitions were only too common among the Greeks.

 It may be added that Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, was one of the deities to whom women were especially devoted. The reason for her popularity with women is that in ancient Greece sorcery and witchcraft were the concern of women. The image of the triple Hecate was frequently erected in front of the house and at the crossroads. Aristophanes tells us that when a woman left her house, she always made a prayer to Hecate because a power that can produce ghosts and magical evils can also avert them. Hecate is also seen in the Chaldean Oracles, which emphasized the goddess in a more prevailing role than she had ever been seen before, that of a savior (Soteira), and a cosmic soul. She was described as being both the “substance and origin” of symbols and dreams and also the supreme goddess incorporating the Titan Rhea, who had been the Greek Mother of the Gods. In these oracles, she became the source of souls and virtues, bestowing her power on the seeker who approached her appropriately. The seeker concentrated on union with the gods to achieve perfection and emphasized spiritual development rather than mundane concerns. The Chaldean Oracles also described Hecate's fires as winding or enwrapping. The Gnostics embraced the concept of a fire snake as the embodiment of Sophia (or wisdom), which rose up the spine and enabled the practitioner to cross the threshold and ascend to spirit.

In the Luciferian current, she is sometimes seen as the mother of Lucifer. In this interpretation, the goddess creates Lucifer when she parts herself to become two separate beings, one of light, the other, herself, remaining dark. She also carries with her the association of Saturn as his lady, Fate. In this association, Saturn, of course, rules time, and therefore both life and death, or creation and destruction, and all of the processes of change that take place between. Operating as Fate, Hecate, therefore, decrees the orderly passage of these processes via cause and effect. Thus, she is both the Great Mother and the Cruel Mother of our lore. In rites of Draconian magic, she is the guide through mysteries of the underworld and the first initiator on the path, leading us into the Womb of Lilith through the gateways of the Nightside.

 The Call unto the Dark Queen

I call to you, keeper of the secret keys;

Mistress of the Nightside; Goddess of all Witchcraft;

I call to you Hecate;

Hear me say your name;

You are the goddess of the Crossroads;

Witch flame, Queen of old;

Through Lunar Gates I seek you;

Lady of shadow-lands;

In Night’s Circle, I stand alone;

As Follower and Lover;

Offered unto you;

Let me feel your Dark embrace;

O green-eyed Queen of Hell.

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