Hecate #atozblogchallenge

Hecate is the goddess that represents darkness, the moon, magic and choices or crossroads. She is often seen holding a torch, a sword and/or a key. When you see statues or artwork representing Hecate, there are often three goddesses. She is the triple goddess, a pre-abrahamic version of trinity.

Her voice might say something like...

I sit in the blackness of the dark moon night

with my hounds

at the crossroads

where three roads converge

at the crossroads

the place of choice

All paths lead to the crossroads

and all are desireable

but only one can you travel

only one can you choose

choice creates endings

and all beginnings come from endings

at the crossroads

Which one will you choose?

which way will you go?

which?

Though the choice is yours

here’s a secret I’ll share

The way to choose is to enter the void

the way to choose is to let die

the way to choose is to fly free

Excerpt from The Goddess Oracle by Amy Sophia Marashinsky

Hecate represents liberation for women. Historically, in medieval times, those who venerated the goddess were tortured as witches; even burned at the stake. Female independence was feared as women who did not submit to the church and male authority were not easily controlled. The idea of witches being evil is a product of a patriarchal superstition.  Hecate was disparaged and became a shriveled old woman with a propensity for destruction as an attempt to oppress indigenous pre-Christian religions.