Liber Hecates: The Book of Hekate (Libri Deorum: The Books of the Gods) Kindle Edition

Who is Hekate? In Antiquity she was sung of in hymns and epics, sculpted to guard thresholds and crossroads, and inscribed onto gemstones and metals which were used as protective amulets. And even while the worship of the Greek gods receded, Hekate remained as the goddess of witchcraft, still spoken of by philosophers and playwrights as representing the most mysterious elements of a religion thought gone. Yet today her worship is revived and growing, as more and more people are drawn to her mysteries.But who is she? Modern Hellenists, Wiccans, Witches, and more engage in both historical and theological debates over who exactly this goddess is, and this raises bigger questions: what is ‘magic’? How is it different from ‘religion’? And what can Hekate’s role as its goddess teach us about the questions humans of every religion have been asking for millenia?From the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Hesiodic Hymn to Hekate, through the words etched onto curse tablets and protective amulets, to the Greek Magical Papyri to the Chaldean Oracles, this book seeks to offer a comprehensive overview of the writings about Hekate in Antiquity and beyond. Tracing her through religion, philosophy, magic, and mysticism, here are the prayers, the philosophies, the poems; here is the Book of Hekate. Read more