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This does seem to be the case.From Apollomius Rhodius Argonautica 3.1214 the Chorus is; Lord sun and holy fire,sword of Hekate of the roads which she carries over Olympus as she attends as she traverses the sacred crossroads of the land crowned with oak and the woven coils of snakes,falling on her s...

The oak as Zeus tree could point towards Hekate's epithet Dione which is the female form of the name Zeus. See here: http://nehetisingsforhekate.tumblr.com/post/171352133591/epithets-dione While possible seems unlikely given the particular passages that were referenced. The Argonautica had nothing ...

Quick reply due to time restrictions my end. Hekate is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles' lost play The Root Diggers (or The Root Cutters), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica (3.1214) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through ...

The simple point is that hekate was always an imported deity to the Britsh Iles. Her priesthood left no indication of any work of incorporating any local flora and fauna. On a different note Iread somewhere that the red mullet is a fish that is sacxred to her and is eaten in her Mediterranean ritua...

This seems very likely to me as I have found to my cost that many english graveyards and even the surrounding land has unmarked graves. An enigmatic reply.Can you elaborate on 'to my cost''? Another side note is to take into account that there are often many other species of tree planted in the chu...

I think there were many reasons Yew trees were planted in graveyards.These vary from the belief they repelled evil spirits through to being representative of Immortality.Some schools of thought put Yew as the original axis mundi while Druidic lore explains its magical associations within the framewo...