of the crossroads (trivia, "three ways"). Hecate was closely identified with Diana and Artemis in the Roman era. Potential Greek source words have been...
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Morrígan) or a single deity notable for having three aspects (Greek Hecate, Roman Diana). Georges Dumézil proposed in his trifunctional hypothesis that...
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and to varying degrees during the thousand-year existence of the Eastern Roman Empire, which also became known by the former name of the city as the Byzantine...
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Luna (goddess) (redirect from Luna (Roman goddess))
represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess (diva triformis), along with Diana and either Proserpina or Hecate. Luna is not always a distinct...
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into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own...
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Melinoë (category Epithets of Hecate)
characteristics that seem similar to Hecate and the Erinyes, and Melinoë's name is sometimes thought to be an epithet of Hecate. The name "Melinoë" also appears...
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Diana (mythology) (redirect from Trivia (Roman mythology))
Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads...
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The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (redirect from Hecate (William Blake))
Hecate, a chthonic Greco-Roman goddess of magic and the underworld. The work presents a nightmarish scene with fantastic creatures. The Triple Hecate...
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Lagina (category Hecate)
Roman Catholic Church. Lagina was the largest site of a monumental temple to Hecate. The rituals carried out at Lagina were therefore unique. Hecate was...
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In ancient Roman religion, birth and childhood deities were thought to care for every aspect of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and child development...
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Di inferi (category Ancient Roman religion)
Februus, Etruscan god of purification and death, absorbed into the Roman pantheon Hecate or Trivia ("three paths"), an aspect of the triple goddess, along...
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Lampades (category Hecate)
Λαμπάδες, from Ancient Greek: λαμπάς, romanized: lampás, lit. 'torch') are torch-bearing nymphs who follow the goddess Hecate. According to a scholium on Homer's...
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Diaspora Revolt (redirect from Second Jewish-Roman War)
The term "Diaspora Revolt" (115–117 CE; Hebrew: מרד הגלויות, romanized: mered ha-galuyot, or מרד התפוצות, mered ha-tfutzot, 'rebellion of the diaspora';...
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with the Romans. Potter and Johns wrote that "Some classical deities, notably Hecate of the underworld, had triple manifestations. In Roman Britain, some...
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Crescent and star (symbol) (section Greeks and Romans)
it was Hecate. Hecate had a cult in Byzantium from the time of its founding. Like Byzas in one legend, she had her origins in Thrace. Hecate was considered...
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area of North Africa which has been known as Libya since 1911 was under Roman domination between 146 BC and 672 AD (even if in the meantime it was taken...
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Gale (mythology) (category Hecate)
Greek mythology. She was a very skillful witch who earned the wrath of Hecate, the Greek goddess of magic. According to Aelian's On the Characteristics...
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Phosphorus (morning star) (redirect from Lucifer (Graeco-Roman mythology))
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phosphorus (Ancient Greek: Φωσφόρος, romanized: Phōsphoros) is the god of the planet Venus in its appearance as the Morning...
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Erecura (category Hecate)
mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater, as on an altar from Sulzbach. She appears with...
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during his college years. A week before Halloween, the goddess of magic Hecate enlists Percy Jackson to house-sit for her crumbling mansion and look after...
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in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. In Late Antiquity, the empousae have been...
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in reference to ancient Roman religion and myth, as in the formation of a distinctive Gallo-Roman religion. Both the Romans and the Gauls reinterpreted...
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Robigalia (category Ancient Roman festivals)
flesh was a normal part of the Roman diet; the dog occurs as a victim most often in magic and private rites for Hecate and other chthonic deities, but...
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of Egyptian Funereal Solar barque Tabula Cortonensis Ancient Roman statue of Hecate (Roman Trivia) Genius with Laurel Crown (1633–1639) by Pietro da Cortona...
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Hades (redirect from Pluto (Roman mythology))
Hades (/ˈheɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Hā́idēs, Attic Greek: [háːi̯dεːs], later [háːdεːs]), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is...
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List of night deities (section Greco-Roman)
brother of Hypnos Roman Diana Trivia, goddess of the hunt, the moon, crossroads, equivalent to the Greek goddesses Artemis and Hecate Latona, mother goddess...
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Circe (character) (category Greek and Roman deities in fiction)
Wonder Woman's principal Post-Crisis foes. With the goddess of witchcraft Hecate as her patron, Circe featured significantly in a number of Wonder Woman-related...
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schiller. An alternative name for moonstone is hecatolite (from goddess Hecate). Moonstone polished en cabochon The name moonstone derives from the stone's...
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Mana Genita (category Hecate)
birth." Accordingly, just as the Greeks sacrifice a bitch to Hecatê, even so do the Romans offer the same sacrifice to Geneta on behalf of the members...
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Paternal Intellect which includes the mediating World-Soul, a female Power Hecate similar to Sophia. Fiery emanations from the First Intellect produce the...
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