I come from a diverse family background and we don't just have Celtic views in my family so today I would like to share something from my Greek family (I am not Greek by the way), some are part of Freemasons. So I have a first cousin who comes from a family of Greek-Egyptians so I know their path very well now and people only worship the Greek Hekate or Ekati but do not know these deities link to Egypt, Babylonia and Mesopotamia but today I will just stick to Greek and won't complicate it. Just wish to say this is why Hecate comes from Persia - Middle East has big influence on Greek Paganism.
Goddess Hekate:
The goddess Hekate was a genuine Ancient Greek deity born of the Persian and the Asteria goddess. At some point the theft of our primordial gods by other Peoples who in those years had neither the proper language nor the proper alphabet to pronounce the names of the gods with their full meaning and etymology must stop.
The Greek Poet Hesiod recognizes in the person of the Goddess Hecate the mighty Lady of the three kingdoms: earth, sky and sea. He also says that the goddess exercised her sovereignty from the time of the Titans before Zeus and his class took power. The god Zeus honored her, leaving her in her original glory, and most of all giving her wonderful gifts, a share of the earth, the sea and the starry sky. Her name is probably related to the epithet cetivolos attributed to Apollo. There are titles of her like angel and phosphorus. With the second title he is often called "bearer of light"
The goddess Hekate therefore protected those who administered justice, the hunters, the warriors, the fishermen and the herds of the shepherds, hence her nickname pig farmer. She had a close relationship with Hades and mythology wants her to be the mediator of Persephone's return from the underworld and her return to her mother Demeter. Later, in classical times, the deity of Hekate begins to take on another dimension. From classical antiquity onwards, Hekate is "identified" with Demeter (or Artemis) and Persephone in a triune entity.
This identification is purely symbolic, since it expresses the supremacy of the three divine entities in Heaven and the Moon (Hekati), the Earth (Artemis) and Hades/Underworld (Persephone). But there were also three mythical Mermaids, Stheno (Strength), Euryalis (Sea) and Medusa (Wisdom), but also the terrible Erinyes, Tisephone, Alykto and Megaira, who were born from the blood of Uranus when he was mutilated by Saturn.
But also Hekate herself, in the later times of antiquity, appears as a trisypostat, essentially expressing the three worlds (Divine, Earthly and Dead).
The holidays in her honor, Hekateia were held in tristrata, preferably outside the cities, while, in another celebration of house cleansing, Oxythymia, her name was invoked to drive away evil spirits. The statues of the goddess usually had three faces while, in other versions, the woman's face was accompanied by a horse's face and a lion's.
Through this perception came the marginalization of the feminine element in the late Roman years and the Middle Ages in relation to the divine. The female deities and especially the goddess Hekate was so devalued during the years of monotheistic-theocratic perception that many centuries would have to pass for the ancient Greek view of the "isotheism" of the two sexes to be reborn, even partially, through the progress and evolution of societies and political systems.
Please respect this knowledge and only add this into your Book of Shadows/Grimoire - Thank you
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