Artemis, Selene and Hecate
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Artemis, Selene and Hecate
Hello
Can anyone tell me what the association is between these three Goddesses?
Can anyone tell me what the association is between these three Goddesses?
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Re: Artemis, Selene and Hecate
Dimitrios65 wrote:Hello
Can anyone tell me what the association is between these three Goddesses?
Initially, the first was associated with wilderness, hunting, and girlhood, the second with the physical moon, and the third with liminal spaces, graves, the nighttime, and the underworld.
However, ever increasingly, from around the Greek Classical period and onward through the Hellenistic and Roman eras, these three were increasingly considered to be either different forms/aspects of the same deity, or even, by Late Antiquity, almost synonymous and interchangeable. Iconography came to represent them identically in many cases.
Some Classical discussion of the subject is available here:
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Re: Artemis, Selene and Hecate
I see. And what do you believe, personally, if you don't mind me asking? Do you believe they are all one deity?
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I believe they represent specific personae/roles of the same basic power.
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Which is?
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Which is the sum total of all of these powers . . . I'm not sure I understand the question exactly
Perhaps one might refer to the overarching force of all three the Allotment of the World, Heimarmene (Εἱμαρμένη)
Perhaps one might refer to the overarching force of all three the Allotment of the World, Heimarmene (Εἱμαρμένη)
Re: Artemis, Selene and Hecate
Oh! Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I wanted to know what name you would give to that "same basic power".
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Re: Artemis, Selene and Hecate
Since Εἱμαρμένη is one of the Pillars of Destiny, what do we make of the other two Pillars, Μοίρα and Πεπρωμένη? Do they also represent different powers?
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Re: Artemis, Selene and Hecate
Dimitrios65 wrote:Since Εἱμαρμένη is one of the Pillars of Destiny, what do we make of the other two Pillars, Μοίρα and Πεπρωμένη? Do they also represent different powers?
Various manifestations of the Fate/Apportionment/Destiny, or whatever you wish to call the overarching power that conducts the unfolding of things.
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