Автор: Stephen Ronan (Editor)
Название: The Goddess Hekate / Богиня Геката
Издательство: Hastings, U.K. : Chthonios Books
Series: Studies in ancient pagan and Christian religion & philosophy (Book 1)
Год: 1992
Формат: PDF
Размер: 54.85 MB
Язык: Английский
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Hekate is arguably the most mysterious and formidable of all the Goddess of the ancient world. Although she is often thought of today as the archetypal triple lunar deity, a glance at her history reveals a Goddess who is much more complex, and one with a broader and deeper range of symbolism.
There is now a consensus amongst scholars that Hekate's origins are to be found not in Greece but in Asia Minor, and more particularly in Caria (in modern south-west Turkey), where the town of Lagina was home to her most important cult center. It has also won general acceptance that she was not originally a moon Goddess, and that her triple nature derived, as Farnell was the first to point out, not from the moon, but from her role as Goddess of the crossroads, which in ancient Greece was a meeting of three ways.