Goddess Hekate

Hekate is one of the most enigmatic of Anatolian/Greek Goddess. Archaeological evidence attests to the popularity she attained as a goddess of the common folk and reveals how widely her worship spread throughout Anatolia, Greece, the Aegean Islands and Italy. Hekate probably originated in southwestern corner of Asia Minor, Caria, but we do not know what kind of goddess is. Hekate is a goddess of the older generation, born of Titan parents. She probably derived from the Anatolian Mother Goddesses like Artemis Ephesia and Kybele. Hekate is the feminine form of Hekatos, a name of Apollon that appears in the Iliad (7.83). My discussion of her approach all of the matter which this thesis. This difference was too striking to be neglected, and I determined to look into the matter, in hopes of discovering whether this early picture was representative of the goddess at that time; or, in archaic time, she really was the antithesis of what she later became in Greece and especially Anatolia.