Hecate is the Greek goddess of magic and witchcraft. She is shown most often holding two torches or a key and in later periods. In her Triple Goddess form (and we will note this does not represent Maiden, Mother and Crone). She was variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, dogs, light, the moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy and sorcery. In ancient times shrines to Hecate were placed at doorways to both homes and cities with the belief that they would protect from the restless dead and other spirits.
The story of Pandora's box tells how a mortal woman opened a magic box and unleashed all the evils of this world to plague humanity. In her horror at the sight of what she had released, she slammed the box closed. After a moment, she heard a faint cry from the box. A sweet voice called for help, and she...
The Ankh is one of the most important, enduring and popular symbols of the ancient world. The word means “life” in the language of the Nile region. Ankhs were carried as amulets against sickness, danger and death. Ankhs were used in Egyptian art in all sorts of ways. Pictures of the sun were made with ankhs at the end of...
The Ankh was the Ancient Egyptian symbol of life. The Scarab was one of the forms their Sun God could take. The scarab beetle was often seen rolling a ball of dung across the desert floor (to be used as food for its young). To the Egyptians, this suggested a metaphor for the movements of the sun across the sky,...
The Ankh was the Ancient Egyptian symbol of life. The Scarab was one of the forms their Sun God could take. The scarab beetle was often seen rolling a ball of dung across the desert floor (to be used as food for its young). To the Egyptians, this suggested a metaphor for the movements of the sun across the sky,...
