Hymns to Hekatê
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Three Faced Hekáte, Come to me,
Beloved Mistress,
Graciously hear my sacred spells,
Youthful One,
Dawn-born,
Lightbringer to mortals,
Who rides upon fierce eyed bulls.
O Queen, You who drive Your chariot on equal course with Helios,
You dance with the triple forms of the triple Graces As You revel with the stars.
You are Justice and the Thread of the Fates,
Clotho Lachesis Atropos,
O Three Headed One You are Persephone Megaira and Allecto.
One of Many Shapes who arm Your Hands with terrible dark-glowing lamps,
Who shakes locks of fearsome serpents at Your Brow,
Whose Mouths send forth the roar of bulls,
Whose Womb is thick with reptile-scales,
At whose Shoulders are rows of venomous serpents,
Bound across Your Back beneath murderous chains.
O Night Bellower,
Lover of Servitude,
Bull Faced and Bull Headed One,
You have the Eyes of bulls and the voice of dogs.
Your forms are hidden in the legs of lions.
Your Ankle is wolf-shaped, and savage dogs are friendly to You,
Wherefore they call You Hekáte, Many Named, Mene, Cleaving the air like Arrow Shooting Artemis.
O Goddess of Four Faces,
Four Names,
Four Ways,
Artemis,
Persephone,
Deer Shooter,
Night Shiner,
Thrice Resounding,
Triple Voiced,
Three Headed,
Thrice Named Selene.
O Trident Bearing One of Three Faces,
Three Necks,
Three Ways,
Who holds undying flame in triple baskets.
You frequent the three ways and are Mistress of the Three Decads.
Be gracious unto me who is invoking You and hearken favorably.
You encompass the vast world at night,
You make the Daemones shudder and the Immortals tremble,
O Many Named Goddess who brings glory to men,
Whose children are fair,
O Bull Eyed One,
Horned One,
Nature,
All Mother,
Who brings forth both Gods and men.
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Hekáte of the Harvest Moon, may Your light shine upon us,
May we seek to harvest all that you have grown in Your sacred garden,
Mother of the Moon, Mother of All,
Protect us as we reap the bounty,
Watch over our ritual,
Guide our words beyond the Liminal,
Accept our offerings to Your ancient fire.
Hail the moon, hail the harvest, hail the Goddess of dark and light!
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Hekáte of the Liminal,
Wash away the past,
Protect the present,
Illuminate the future.
Hekáte - Guardian of the Gate,
Keep our enemies away,
Until them as they do unto us,
Lock the negative in with them,
Hekáte of the Crossroads,
Set forth my road before me,
Let my choice please You,
May a new chapter begin.
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"Hekatê Einodia, Trivia, lovely dame, of earthly, watery, and celestial frame, sepulchral, in a saffron veil arrayed, pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade; Perseis, solitary goddess, hail! The world's key-bearer, never doomed to fail; in stags rejoicing, huntress, nightly seen, and drawn by bulls, unconquerable queen; Leader, Nymphe, nurse, on mountains wandering, hear the suppliants who with holy rites thy power revere, and to the herdsman with a favouring mind draw near."