Light side of Hecate

Apart from popularity for her three-facedness and trinity, Hecate also attracts attention by her ambiguity. Being a goddess of edges and borders, she combines light and dark aspects within her entity. At the Medieval times the image of the goddess had been demonized to some extent, and subsequently the dark side prevailed. Nevertheless, while having a prosperous cult during the times of Ancient Greece, Hecate played a role of deity who was caring light in mysteries, especially in Eleusinian and Samothrakian ones. One of the symbols belonging to this feature is frequent picture of three-faced goddess with a torch in one of hands. People used to walk with such a torch of Hecate on recently sown fields, enlightening them with blazing moon light. It is relations with the Moon and fertility that are the two most powerful characteristics of Hecate's light side.

Firstly, being a Moon goddess, she embodies an ability of that luminary not only to reflect the sun light to the places where it cannot reach without it's help, but simultaneously to exist in darkness herself.

Secondly, in Hecate there is a role of the World Soul concluded. It is one of three foundation of creating - Mother, Force. A source of that Soul is placed in her right side. Thus, the goddess is "animator" ( that who bestows with soul) of worlds and has a middle position between something that is comprehended by brain and something that is comprehended by sence. Once again she appears between worlds and between different aspects of world perception. She is a female, mother essence, life-giving nature force, a goddess of rebirth cycles. She owns a name Kurothropha for good reason, which means "feeder of children".

Therefore, in spite of her common neutrality of triad entity, the goddess has a distinctly marked light side caused by her lunar emanation on the one hand, and by vessel of force creating a life - on the other.