Hecate

Titan-descended goddess of magic and crossroads, honoured in earth, sea and sky.

Parentage

• parent: Coeus
• parent: Phoebe

Domains

• witchcraft and crossroads
• earth sea sky portion

Powers

• Grants or withholds success to whomever she wills
• Commands ghosts, sorcery and the night-wandering dead

Epithets

• Τριοδῖτις greek · Trioditis · cultOf the three-ways / crossroads; goddess of the meeting of roadscf. Lat. Trivia; Soph. fr. 535 (Hekate at the crossroads) (secondary)
• Πρόπολος greek · Propolos · hymnicAttendant/guide; companion and forerunner of PersephoneHymn. Hom. Cer. 438-440 (primary)
• Φωσφόρος greek · Phosphoros · cultLight-bearer; torch-bearing goddess of the nightAristoph. fr. 608; Paus. 1.43.1 (Artemis-Hekate Phosphoros) (primary)
• Χθονία greek · Chthonia · cultOf the earth/underworld; the chthonic Hecate of ghosts and magicHes. Theog. 411-452 (her three-realm honours); PGM IV (magical invocations) (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: LetoFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Coeus & Phoebe) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Hesiod, Theogony 411-415 (primary)