Hecate

Family: Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: The Great Eoiae

In the Great Eoiae, Hecate is named as the mother of Scylla, and in the Homeric Hymn II she is described as “the daughter of Persaeus.” On the tenth dawn after Persephone’s abduction, Hecate met Demeter with a torch and told her what she had heard. From then on, she became Persephone’s minister and companion.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hecate met Demeter and told her what she had heard of Persephone's abduction.(Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1)
  • With: Demeter
  • “But when the tenth enlightening dawn had come, Hecate, with a torch in her hands, met her, and spoke to her and told her news:”
• Hecate became Persephone’s minister and companion.(Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 3)
  • With: Persephone
  • “and from that time the lady Hecate was minister and companion to Persephone.”

The Great Eoiae

• child: Scylla “In the Great Eoiae Scylla is the daughter of Phoebus and Hecate.”

Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1

• parent: Persaeus “tender-hearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus”

Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 3

• with Persephone (Hecate is Persephone’s minister and companion.) “Then bright-coiffed Hecate came near to them, and often did she embrace the daughter of holy Demeter: and from that time the lady Hecate was minister and companion to Persephone.”
• friends with Persephone “Then bright-coiffed Hecate came near to them, and often did she embrace the daughter of holy Demeter: and from that time the lady Hecate was minister and companion to Persephone.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.