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#A-SH722 Hecate (Hekate) was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titans Perses and Asteria, from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea. Cast and finished by hand in cold-cast bronze, this statuette is 11.25" x 6 x 6".
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Hecate, both Titan and goddess, assisted the gods in their war with the Giants, and slew Clytius. She was a witness to the kidnapping of Persephone and assisted Demeter in her search for her daughter, guiding her through the night with flaming torches. After the mother-daughter reunion, she became Persephone's minister and companion in Hades. It was in the time of the Greek tragedians that she became associated with the Underworld. Three metamorphosis myths describe the origins of her animal familiars: the black she-dog and the polecat (a mustelid house pet kept by the ancients to hunt vermin). The dog was the Trojan Queen Hekabe (Hecuba) who leapt into the sea after the fall of Troy and was transformed by the goddess. The polecat was either the witch Gale, turned as punishment for her incontinence, or Galinthias, midwife of Alkmene (Alcmena), who was transformed by the enraged goddess Eileithyia but adopted by the sympathetic Hecate. Hecate was usually depicted in Greek vase painting as a woman holding twin torches. Sometimes she was dressed in a knee-length maiden's skirt and hunting boots, much like Artemis. In statuary Hecate was often depicted in triple form as a goddess of crossroads. Her name means "worker from afar" from the Greek word hekatos. The masculine form of the name, Hekatos, was a common epithet of the god Apollon. Hekate was identified with a number of other goddesses including Artemis, Selene (the Moon), Despoine, the sea-goddess Crataeis, the goddess of the Taurian Khersonese in Scythia, the Kolkhian (Colchian) nymph Perseis, the heroine Iphigeneia, the Thracian goddesses Bendis and Cotys, the Euboian nymph Maira(the Dog-Star), the Eleusinian nymph Daeira, and the Boiotian nymph Herkyna. She appears to have been an ancient Thracian or Carian divinity, and, as a Titan, ruled in heaven, on the earth, and in the sea. She bestowed on mortals wealth, victory, wisdom, good luck to sailors and hunters, and prosperity to youth and to the flocks of cattle; but all these blessings might at the same time be withheld by her, if mortals did not deserve them. She was the only one among the Titans who retained this power under the rule of Zeus, and she was honored by all the immortal gods. Mysteries were celebrated to her in Samothrace and Aegina. |