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Hecate (Greek: ?????, "far-shooting" ) Hekate (Hekátę, 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
