Scull, Sarah Amelia · Philadelphia : Porter & Coates · leaf 264
longbeen in Grecian theog-ony, whether in her prim-itive form she came fromPelasgic Nature-worship,from Egyptian, or fromEastern systems of belief.According to whatmay be called the phys-ical theory of mythology,Hecate represented themoon in her invisiblephases, and it wasthought that when shewas… … Hecate. HECATE. 263 of the moon—over the land, and over the sea. In rela-tion to human hfe this goddess was supposed to havepower over hfe, both in its birth and its close ; as god-dess of nocturnal phenomena she had control over thereason of men; she was invoked by kings and rulerswhen they sought…
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