And more, I feel maybe the godness has already called me.When I was a teenager, the smell of lavender helped me accept the fear of death. And these days I dream of the holy name of godness. Yesterday at Sunset, I hear the barking of dogs in a place where dogs have almost never appeared before. It barked once or twice every few minutes, and the sound seems to come from the air. I searched carefully but couldn’t find its direction.

Aside from her own temples, Hecate was also worshipped in the sanctuaries of other gods, where she was apparently sometimes given her own space. A round stone altar dedicated to the goddess was found in the Delphinion (a temple dedicated to Apollo) at Miletus. Dated to the 7th century BCE, this is one of the oldest known artefacts dedicated to the worship of Hecate. [14] In association with her worship alongside Apollo at Miletus, worshipers used a unique form of offering: they would place stone cubes, often wreathes, known as γυλλοι ( gylloi) as protective offerings at the door or gateway. [14] [91] There was an area sacred to Hecate in the precincts of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, where the priests, megabyzi, officiated. [92] This sanctuary was called Hecatesion (Shrine of Hecate). [93] Hecate was also worshipped in the Temple of Athena in Titane: "In Titane there is also a sanctuary of Athena, into which they bring up the image of Koronis [mother of Asklepios] ... The sanctuary is built upon a hill, at the bottom of which is an Altar of the Winds, and on it the priest sacrifices to the winds one night in every year. He also performs other secret rites [of Hecate] at four pits, taming the fierceness of the blasts [of the winds], and he is said to chant as well the charms of Medea." [94] She was most commonly worshipped in nature, where she had many natural sanctuaries. An important sanctuary of Hecate was a holy cave on the island of Samothrake called Zerynthos: I get a terrible OCD.Many times that, the more I want to pray to god and godness, some illogical blasphemous ideas appear without reason. I hate these ideas and feel guilty. I swear I never mean to think about this, but the negative ideas just appear in my mind. Well.. i have the OCD symptom before(for many other reasons), but never feel suffering like now. The more I want to worship, these ideas torture me more. Wheelwright, P. E. (1975). Metaphor and Reality. Bloomington. p. 144. ISBN 0-253-20122-5. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Of the gods, the Aiginetans worship most Hecate, in whose honour every year they celebrate mystic rites which, they say, Orpheus the Thrakian established among them. Within the enclosure is a temple; its wooden image is the work of Myron, and it has one face and one body. It was Alkamenes, in my opinion, who first made three images of Hecate attached to one another [in Athens]. [90] The spelling Hecat is due to Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, [25] and this spelling without the final E later appears in plays of the Elizabethan- Jacobean period. [26] Webster's Dictionary of 1866 particularly credits the influence of Shakespeare for the then-predominant disyllabic pronunciation of the name. [27] Iconography [ edit ] Hekataion with the Charites, Attic, 3rd century BCE ( Glyptothek, Munich)Vasiliki Limberis, Divine Heiress: The Virgin Mary And The Creation of Christian Constantinople, Routledge, 1994, pp. 126–127. Homer, Odyssey 10.135; Hesiod, Theogony 956; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.591; Apollodorus, 1.9.1; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 48.4; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface John Minsheu and William Somner (17th century), Edward Lye of Oxford (1694–1767), Johann Georg Wachter, Glossarium Germanicum (1737), Walter Whiter, Etymologicon Universale (1822) a b Edwards, Charles M. (July 1986). "The Running Maiden from Eleusis and the Early Classical Image of Hekate". American Journal of Archaeology. Boston, Massachusetts: Archaeological Institute of America. 90 (3): 307–318. doi: 10.2307/505689. JSTOR 505689. S2CID 193054943. Marlowe, Christopher (c. 1603) [first published 1604; performed earlier]. Doctor Faustus. actIII, scene2, line21– via Google Books. Pluto's blue fire and Hecat's tree

In her three-headed representations, discussed above, Hecate often has one or more animal heads, including cow, dog, boar, serpent, and horse. [46] Lions are associated with Hecate in early artwork from Asia Minor, as well as later coins and literature, including the Chaldean Oracles. [29] The frog, which was also the symbol of the similarly named Egyptian goddess Heqet, [47] has also become sacred to Hecate in modern pagan literature, possibly due in part to its ability to cross between two elements. [48] Hecate is the primary feminine figure in the Chaldean Oracles (2nd–3rd century CE), [136] where she is associated in fragment 194 with a strophalos (usually translated as a spinning top, or wheel, used in magic) "Labour thou around the Strophalos of Hecate." [137] This appears to refer to a variant of the device mentioned by Psellus. [138] In Samothrake there were certain initiation-rites, which they supposed efficacious as a charm against certain dangers. In that place were also the mysteries of the Korybantes [Kabeiroi] and those of Hekate and the Zerinthian cave, where they sacrificed dogs. The initiates supposed that these things save [them] from terrors and from storms. [95] Cult at Lagina [ edit ] Pour the hot water over top the loose leaf ingredients and let it steep for 5-7 minutes depending on how strong you like your tea. Strain the tea leaves. Add a small slice of fresh pomegranate (optional) and honey. Hold the cup of tea into the air and recite the following incantation (or make up your own):In Early Modern English, the name was also pronounced disyllabically (as / ˈ h ɛ k . ɪ t/) and sometimes spelled Hecat. It remained common practice in English to pronounce her name in two syllables, even when spelled with final e, well into the 19th century. [ citation needed] If Hecate's cult spread from Anatolia into Greece, then it possibly presented a conflict, as her role was already filled by other more prominent deities in the Greek pantheon, above all by Artemis and Selene. This line of reasoning lies behind the widely accepted hypothesis that she was a foreign deity who was incorporated into the Greek pantheon. Other than in the Theogony, the Greek sources do not offer a consistent story of her parentage or of her relations in the Greek pantheon. You can use items related to the symbols connected with her like a snake, a torch, a knife, a key, or a wheel of Hekate. This is something fun to do in Hecate’s honor. Locate Sirius, the Dog Star, in the night sky. Use a mobile app like SkyView to locate Sirius, and if you can see it with the naked eye, gaze at it awhile. Feel Hecate’s energy radiating down from the night sky and pulsing through your veins. The star Sirius is her sacred star. Draw Sirius on your body somewhere in honor of the goddess. 12. Work With Her Allies R. L. Hunter, The Argonautica of Apollonius, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 142, citing Apollonius of Rhodes.

Well, I think what I can do now is to enhance my spirituality and overcome the constantly emerging blasphemous thoughts with a firm will. But……it maybe not the best way. So, I hope to receive some suggestions, thank you very much! Worker-from-afar." A mysterious divinity, who, according to the most common tradition, was a daughter of Persaeus or Perses and Asteria, whence she is called Perseis. 1 Others describe her as a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and state that she was sent out by her father in search of Persephone; 2 others again make her a daughter of Zeus either by Pheraea or by Hera; 3 and others, lastly, say that she was a daughter of Leto or Tartarus. 4 Homer does not mention her.a b c d Mooney, Carol M., "Hekate: Her Role and Character in Greek Literature from before the Fifth Century B.C." (1971). Open Access Dissertations and heses. Paper 4651. This extensive power possessed by Hecate was probably the reason that subsequently she was confounded and identified with several other divinities, and at length became a mystic goddess, to whom mysteries were celebrated in Samothrace 6 and in Aegina. 7 For being as it were the queen of all nature, we find her identified with Demeter, Rhea ( Cybele or Brimo); being a huntress and the protector of youth, she is the same as Artemis ( Curotrophos); and as a goddess of the moon, she is regarded as the mystic Persephone. 8 She was further connected with the worship of other mystic divinities, such as the Cabeiri and Curetes, 9 and also with Apollo and the Muses. 10 Baktria, Kings, Agathokles, ancient coins index with thumbnails". WildWinds.com . Retrieved 24 September 2012. By the 5th century BCE, Hecate had come to be strongly associated with ghosts, possibly due to conflation with the Thessalian goddess Enodia (meaning "traveller"), who travelled the earth with a retinue of ghosts and was depicted on coinage wearing a leafy crown and holding torches, iconography strongly associated with Hecate. [29] As a goddess of witchcraft [ edit ]