Hecate (Greek: ?????, "far-shooting" ) Hekate (Hekátê, Hekát?), or Hekat was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, naturalized early in Mycenaean GreeceWilliam Berg, "Hecate: Greek or 'Anatolian'?", Numen 21.2 (August 1974:128-40). or in Thrace, but originating among the Carians of Anatolia, Walter Burkert, (1987) Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, pp 171. Oxford, Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-15624-0. the region where most theophoric names, such as Hecataeus or Hecatomnus, progenitor of Mausollus, are attested,Theodor Kraus, Hekate: Studien zu Wesen u. Bilde der Göttin in Kleinasien u. Griechenland (Heidelberg) 1960. Kraus offers the first modern comprehensive discussion of Hecate in monuments and material culture., and where Hekate remained a Great Goddess into historical times, at her unrivalled

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