I started out looking up Hekate because I was looking for deities for Will the Watcher to make offering to. In the magic system where dedicating your life to a particular deity gives you particular forms of power to draw on, I need a set of deities. Or at least one set. I think I struck gold on this one.
The me-alike is dedicated to Janus, as per usual. So I thought Hekate of the crossroads for the recently vampiric Will. Hekate is associated with the undead, and when I look her up on Wiki, the name may derive from the greek word for Will.
Plus this Trivia identification means I have excellent misdirection cover for Will's tweedy watcher phase where no one takes him quite as seriously. His utter dedication to Trivia would at least sound like one of the other things.
Triple faced and holding a torch, key, dagger, serpents and other things. Interesting. Trivia the name comes from Tri Via, Three Ways. Goddess of the same crossroads. Crossroads, Graveyards, Witchcraft and the Harvest Moon, Queen of Ghosts.
Trivia was known for nicking off with young women and making them nymphs to serve her. which seems like a perfectly respectable way to get religion to me...
The other meaning of Trivia came from the three ways of studying liberal arts, grammar, logic and rhetoric. Trivial eventually meant not worth bothering with because those were the beginner subjects, the undergrad stuff. Which is daft really.
Trivia are also a genus of small sea snails, not actually cowries but often called that. as with other shell things they've got that something slimy lurking in a dark slit going for them. They're found in Britain, the species I looked up more common more north.
Hekate is often associated with hounds. Some statues show her with animal heads, one of them a dog, others horse and serpent, or cow or boar. Doesn't sound consistent.
Medea is a priestess of Hekate and Jason, of argonauts fame, 'placated' her in ritual: bathed at midnight in a stream of flowing water, and dressed in dark robes, Jason is to dig a round pit and over it cut the throat of a ewe, sacrificing it and then burning it whole on a pyre next to the pit as a holocaust. He is told to sweeten the offering with a libation of honey, then to retreat from the site without looking back, even if he hears the sound of footsteps or barking dogs.
She was honoured as having power in earth, sea and sky. Sources disagree on a lot of things about her. There's a lot of argue how much honor she got back in the day.
I am pretty sure Hekate is not a deity to be messed around with or invoked for, er, trivial purposes. Using her name in fiction I would be cautious about. But she would appear appropriate for the character I had in mind.
Hecate also came to be associated with ghosts, infernal spirits, the dead and sorcery. Shrines to Hecate were placed at doorways to both homes and cities with the belief that it would protect from restless dead and other spirits. Likewise, shrines to Hecate at three way crossroads were created where food offerings were left at the new moon to protect those who did so from spirits and other evils.
Yew is sacred to Hekate. Hounds and snakes seem pretty consistent associations. Hecate was associated with borders, city walls, doorways, crossroads and, by extension, with realms outside or beyond the world of the living.
So she's basically the right goddess for someone stuck the wrong side of undeath if fiction is an appropriate place to mention her.
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Date: 2015-06-12 12:18 pm (UTC)In the magic system where dedicating your life to a particular deity gives you particular forms of power to draw on, I need a set of deities. Or at least one set.
I think I struck gold on this one.
The me-alike is dedicated to Janus, as per usual.
So I thought Hekate of the crossroads for the recently vampiric Will.
Hekate is associated with the undead, and when I look her up on Wiki, the name may derive from the greek word for Will.
Plus this Trivia identification means I have excellent misdirection cover for Will's tweedy watcher phase where no one takes him quite as seriously. His utter dedication to Trivia would at least sound like one of the other things.
Triple faced and holding a torch, key, dagger, serpents and other things. Interesting.
Trivia the name comes from Tri Via, Three Ways. Goddess of the same crossroads.
Crossroads, Graveyards, Witchcraft and the Harvest Moon, Queen of Ghosts.
Trivia was known for nicking off with young women and making them nymphs to serve her.
which seems like a perfectly respectable way to get religion to me...
The other meaning of Trivia came from the three ways of studying liberal arts, grammar, logic and rhetoric. Trivial eventually meant not worth bothering with because those were the beginner subjects, the undergrad stuff.
Which is daft really.
Trivia are also a genus of small sea snails, not actually cowries but often called that.
as with other shell things they've got that something slimy lurking in a dark slit going for them.
They're found in Britain, the species I looked up more common more north.
Hekate is often associated with hounds. Some statues show her with animal heads, one of them a dog, others horse and serpent, or cow or boar. Doesn't sound consistent.
Medea is a priestess of Hekate and Jason, of argonauts fame, 'placated' her in ritual: bathed at midnight in a stream of flowing water, and dressed in dark robes, Jason is to dig a round pit and over it cut the throat of a ewe, sacrificing it and then burning it whole on a pyre next to the pit as a holocaust. He is told to sweeten the offering with a libation of honey, then to retreat from the site without looking back, even if he hears the sound of footsteps or barking dogs.
She was honoured as having power in earth, sea and sky.
Sources disagree on a lot of things about her.
There's a lot of argue how much honor she got back in the day.
I am pretty sure Hekate is not a deity to be messed around with or invoked for, er, trivial purposes.
Using her name in fiction I would be cautious about.
But she would appear appropriate for the character I had in mind.
Hecate also came to be associated with ghosts, infernal spirits, the dead and sorcery. Shrines to Hecate were placed at doorways to both homes and cities with the belief that it would protect from restless dead and other spirits. Likewise, shrines to Hecate at three way crossroads were created where food offerings were left at the new moon to protect those who did so from spirits and other evils.
Yew is sacred to Hekate.
Hounds and snakes seem pretty consistent associations.
Hecate was associated with borders, city walls, doorways, crossroads and, by extension, with realms outside or beyond the world of the living.
So she's basically the right goddess for someone stuck the wrong side of undeath if fiction is an appropriate place to mention her.
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Date: 2015-06-14 05:24 pm (UTC)Do you want to tell me about the one with Janus?