Hekatean Path: Anima Mundi
HEKATE—Stack for my paper for Dr. Christine Downing... on The Tergemina Therapeutica: Hekate the Transcendent Triune of Depth Psychology, midwife of soul consciousness. She is Goddess of the crossroads, far-darting transformer, torch-bearing mediator, snake-riding Queen of Darkness and mistress of the spirits, her approach announced by way of storm and whining worship of her infernal Stygian hounds.
Invocation to The Cosmic World Soul
Taken from the Greek Magical Papyri:
“Come, giant Hekate, Dione’s guard,
O Persia, Baubo Phroune, dart-shooter,
Unconquered, Lydian, the one untamed,
Sired nobly, torch-bearing, guide, who bends down
Proud necks, Kore, hear, you who’ve parted / gates
Of steel unbreakable. O Artemis,
Who, too, were once protectress, mighty one,
Mistress, who burst forth from the earth, dog-leader,
All-tamer, crossroad goddess, triple-headed,
Bringer of light, august / virgin, I call you
Fawn-slayer, crafty, O infernal one,
And many formed. Come, Hekate, goddess
Of three ways, who with your fire-breathing phantoms
Have been allotted dreaded roads and harsh enchantments
Hekate I call you
Far-darting, Artemis, Persephone, Demeter
Triple Goddess who holds untiring flame to the dark,
From toneless throats you send
a dread, sharp cry when you, O goddess,
have raised an awful sound
Hearing your cry, all worldly things are shaken:
The nether gates and Lethe’s holy water
And primal Chaos and the shining chasm
Of Tartaros. The lonely echo of roaring rivers,
And the daimons through the world, shudder at you,
O blessed one, when they hear your dread voice.
Come here to me, goddess of night, beast-slayer,
In usher of my work, great initiator,
Quiet and frightful, having your meal amid the graves.
Come here, she-wolf, Mistress of Night
and chthonic realms, holy, black-clad,
Mother of All, who bore love,
O heavenly one, harbor goddess
O nether one, goddess of depths, eternal
Goddess of darkness, key holder, come to my sacrifices.
Fulfill for me this task, and as I pray,
give heed to me for this work.”
Books mentioned:
Ecstasies by Carlo Ginsburg
Artemis by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Hekate Soteira by Sarah Iles Johnston
Paean to Hekate by Shani Oates
The Goddess Hekate by Stephen Ronan
The Triple Goddess by Adam McLean
The Chaldean Oracles
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by Helene P. Foley
Eleusis by Carl Kerényi and Ralph Manheim
The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas
Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women by Sylvia Brinton Perera
Woman’s Mysteries by M. Esther Harding
Mysticism, Initiation and Dream by Andrew D. Chumbley
Rites and Symbols of Initiation by Mircea Eliade
The Witch in History by Diane Purkiss
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation by Hans Dieter Betz
