#ancient greek myths
Goddess Hecate is being perceived nowadays as primary a goddess of magic with apotropaic characteristics, still the ancient sources reveal an original different image of the goddess. In the greek antiquity she was the revered Kore, the companion of Persephone and Demeter, the only one along with the all seeing Helios (the sun) to witness the abduction of Persephone from Hades, in the field where the girls gathered flowers, Persephone was swallowed by the earth…It was Hecate that informed mother Demeter of the abduction of Persephone. In the artifacts depicting the eleusinian worship, Hecate is present, constant company of the holy duet of the mysteries. Also in Samothrace, the two elemental dwarfs, those Great Gods, tiny and enormous at the same time, Cabiri, devoted their sacred mysteries to no other deities than Demeter, Persephone and Hecate, perhaps the three aspects of the moon, the three ages of the woman, as the mountain Saos (the moon) protected the mystics during their initiation and rituals.
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