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Hekate Soteira, A Study of Hekate’s Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature

By Sarah Iles Johnston

Book information

Publisher
Scholars Press
Year
1990
ISBN
1555404278, 9781555404277
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
101 MB (105976077 bytes)
Series
Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies; 21
Edition
1
Pages
213\213
Topic
Religion\\Esoteric, Mystery
Time added
2024-10-29 05:57:14
ChaldeanhecatehekateNeoplatonismpagan

Description

Hekate is best known to classicists and historians of religion as the horrific patroness of witches. But from the Hellenistic age onwards, some Greek and Roman philosophers and magicians portrayed her quite differently, allotting to her such duties as ensouling the cosmos and the individual men within it, forming the connective boundary between the divine and human worlds, and facilitating such communication between man and god as could lead eventually to the individual soul's release. She was celestial and potentially beneficent, rather than chthonic and threatening.

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