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Old 13-04-2020, 05:05 PM
Lepus
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The union of the god and goddess usually reflects the seasonal changes and the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

Her earliest records come from Anatolia - where she was a Goddess of wilderness, child-birth, and children -- a mother Goddess. She was known as a fertility Goddess, a protectress of women & children, and the Goddess of borders and crossings because of traveling between the upper and lower levels. However, there's no indication that she bore any children but perhaps, had a consort.

Over time, she became to be a Goddess of sorcery, crossroads, and ghosts. Her characteristics as a fertility and motherhood feature would decrease in importance, and ultimately, transformed her into a Goddess of crossroads, night, ghosts, necromancy and witchcraft. Modern witches would associate her darker aspect as a crone Goddess.

The Greeks would depict Hecate as a maiden on their vases holding twin torches. Some claim that Hecate originate in Asia Minor and later introduced into Greece. And some equate the Egyptian goddess Heqet to Hekate. Hecate was known as a triple moon goddess even before the neopagans followed the idea of a triple goddess started by Graves(?)

Most of Hecate's stories or myths show no evidence or support that she was married or had a consort. She was unwilling to lose her independent nature for the sake of marriage, so she became to be known as a virgin Goddess. Although she remained a virgin Goddess, some would say that she had children using parthenogenesis.

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