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To your right you'll find a portrait of Hekate, a powerful triple goddess of the Moon, Earth, and Underworld. Hekate is said to have come from Thrace, a land the Greeks considered barbaric, and most accounts name Her daughter of the Titans Perses (by some accounts brother to Kirke) and Asteria ("Starry", also an epithet of Aphrodite).

As Hekate Trioditis ("Goddess of Crossroads") or Trivia (the Latin form of the word), She protected crossroads, especially those where three roads met, and is shown in triple form standing back to back to back, sighting down each road. She also protected travellers, especially solitary ones in lonely places. As goddess of the Underworld Hekate was said to wait on Queen Persephone, and associate with spirits, ghosts and hounds. She also had great powers of magic and witchcraft.

On Earth, She was known to haunt tombs and places where crimes had happened, and was followed by Her ghostly train and spectral hounds. Though humans could not see Her, earthly dogs always could. Sacrifices were made to Her on the last day of the month in the Greek lunar calendar, at the dark of the moon.

Text and image courtesy of Thalia Took: www.thaliatook.com