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Meaning of hecate



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hecate
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HECATE: Asteroid number 100, of the series.

  



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Hecate ( in ancient Greek would th ¬a· Hekat or do ° ¬a± 41 Hekata; It was originally a goddess of the wild lands and deliveries, first nationalized in the Greece micenica1 or in Thrace, but originating among the carians of Anatolia, the region where most theophoric, such as Hecataeus or Hecatomnus, 3 names and where Hecate remained as great goddess until historical times, in its inigualable4 place of worship in Lagina testified 2. William Berg points out that since children are not baptized in honor of Spectra, it is safe to assume that the names carios theophoric involving hekat - refer to a major deity free from the dark and unpleasant ties with the underworld and witchcraft which was Hecate in classical Athens».5 monuments to Hecate in Phrygia and Caria are numerous but tardios.6 popular cults who venerated it as a goddess mother made that you were integrated in mythology Greek. The Ptolemaic Alexandria would eventually acquiring its connotations of goddess of witchcraft and its role as "Queen of ghosts», under the aspect of which tripled was transmitted to the post-renacentista culture. One of its aspects is represented in Roman Trivia.

  










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