 Welcome, my name is Kiona Kanatera and I am with the Temple of Ascending Flame. Today we will take a brief look surrounding Hekate and her mysteries, her origins. Hekate is a popular goddess and with good reason. She is the dark goddess that leads onto the path of self-mastery, self-attunement, and self-realization. Her position as a goddess of sorcery, one of many attributes, places her within a boundary of spiritual attainment. Hence the reason one of her titles is Goddess of the Crossroads. She stands at the threshold of the spiritual world, guiding us in, conquering our shadows, and doing the inner work. In this brief presentation, I will walk you through some of Hekate's stories, a little bit about her, and how we work with her in the Temple. From research, the name Hekate, Greek pronunciation, or Ekate, the Latin pronunciation, means from afar, which makes sense as she is the one that guides us on our journey down a path of self-mastery. With more information readily available, you will learn of a few for epithets and titles. These are a few that I have come across in working with her. She is known as Adneia, Goddess of the Underworld, Trimorphous, the Triple Goddess, and Inodea, Crossroads, as we normally would meet her there to start our journey. There is more to Hekate that I will be touching on, since Hekate is a popular goddess on most of what is coming up, you know, but my hope is to give you a little more that she won't, so with a little background about her, let's take a further look into her mysteries. Hekate can have a complicated backstory, depending on your personal path and where you believe she is from. Some say her name is Hekate, the ancient Egyptian god and word for magic. Others know that she is a titan that is either helping Zeus with the War of the Titans or birthed by Zeus. Some say she is a pre-Olympian, cathonic goddess from her role in the Chaldean Oracles. How about we touch a little on these origins and meet Hekate? Hekate, from what research is out there, was an Egyptian god of magic. His priests would normally evoke and worship him in order to use Hekate, aka magic. The deity was seen as the All, meaning that all power was granted by him. So I can see how they thought that this was related to Hekate. Hekate is a triple Greek goddess, her most worked with and acknowledged for, and she is also a goddess of witchcraft, magic and the moon. And in essence, if you wanted to learn the history or work with magic, she would be who you would ultimately turn to. It's quite common for older deities or ones with similar attributes and names to be migrated or absorbed into one another. This is no different with Hekate, but Hekate and Hekate, in my opinion, are two separate gods. Hekate the Titan, according to all the lore and mythology we have ever learned about Hekate, she was a child of the Titans Perseus and Hysteria. This is where she was gifted her powers by her parents over the heavens, earth and sea. So from here, we have her first origin within the Greek mythology. Her next break within a mythology is that she was a daughter of Zeus, fully formed, but I didn't see too much research backing that up. Next, she was gifted her powers by Zeus and her participation against the Titans in the war. Not to mention that she also helped Demeter find Persephone when she was snatched to the underworld. That was also a way she was found in favor with Zeus. There is her role as the pre-olympian catholic goddess, as one of three gods giving information to the oracles. The Chaldean oracles are lore stories from Rome that list Hekate as the feminine power that took the fires and given birth to intellect like the Sophia. This information was then passed on to the oracles. People journeyed far to come see and listen to the oracles pass on the notes from the gods. In this tale, she is mainly a goddess of intellect and intelligence. Hekate in the temple of ascending flame With all that we have read, seen, researched and experienced on our own, there is one thing that stands out. Hekate is the beginning. She holds the keys for us to learn more. Her role in the temple of ascending flame is our guide on a path of darkness. After all, the dark holds all the secrets, all the mysteries, all the light. In order to be enlightened, you must conquer the dark, revel in it, learn in it, be one with it. What Hekate does is allow us the chance to learn our shadow self, to dive in the abyss and open our eyes. But then the temple she guides us on the draconian path to learn the mysteries that awaits us. You can say she helps to initiate us on the path of the abyss to become a better, stronger, and more balanced person. Hekate is the goddess of wishcraft, the goddess of sorcery, the opener to all mysteries, and has a long history as we can see. But one thing to know is that Hekate will guide you on the path, protect you, provide you with balance. If you need to go further on your path, she is the one to call upon. Your beginning is with Hekate. There are many books on the market about Hekate. This book is by the temple at the link below. In this book, you will have historical research, meditations, rituals, and personal notices from members and who Hekate has guided and walked with us. I hope you enjoyed this brief information on Hekate. I found maybe something new that you didn't know, including the catholic oracles and her relation to Hekate. If you have any other questions or would like to know more, you can visit the temple of ascending flame or you can follow us on Facebook. Thank you.