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hecate
/ˈhɛkəti/
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What does hecate mean?
proper noun
- A powerful goddess of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.
- 100 Hekate, a main belt asteroid.
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The Greeks immolated many dogs in honour of Hecate, because by their baying the phantoms of the lower world were disturbed.
Then earth began to bellow, trees to dance, And howling dogs in glimm’ring light advance, Ere Hecate came.
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We don't talk of his abode; for the Hecate his wife endeavours to discover it.
Porcius, who snarls at all in every place, With his gray eyes, and with his fiery face, Even after death will scarce admitted be Into the infernal realms by Hecate.
Two light blue eyes that gleamed with a lustre like that of insanity, an utterance of astonishing rapidity, a nose and chin that almost met together, and a ghastly expression of cunning, gave her the effect of Hecate.