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Ohhh, I misunderstood what you were alluding to earlier, then, so I thank you for clarifying. Yeah, for me she's usually got this sense of timelessness to Her, but generally appears as a maturing woman who is young for her age, but old for hers? I dunno if that makes sense, but Hekate is very much ...

Check out this report from Lerna and the House of Tiles, especially seals S83 and S86. https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/147579.pdf It's sort of interesting to me. If you read all the way through it sort of suggest that Hekate's Wheel is simply a Pottery Maker's mark and one of many at...

Same here, as this seems like a fascinating look into the Proto-Indo European mindset. I've not had much time to do additional reading on the subject, as I was intentionally offline last weekend. In brainstorming and reflecting on this, however, I am reminded of the concept of Wyrd (as it relates t...

I've seen these dodecahedrons before, and they're fascinating as pieces of artwork, though I honestly scratch my head at the idea of them having a ritual purpose or anything of the kind given the nature of what specimens I've seen. They don't really have the look of an item used in ritual, so I won...

In relation to the Strophalos and the associated research, as I've been digging into this, I've not found much in the way of useful root sources . Instead, there's a whole lot of conjecture & plenty of folks parroting what they've read elsewhere, often to the point of making this a trite conver...

As would I, especially given the rather one-sided nature of discussions around Her and Her influences, of late. We seem to either be hearing about a certain course that involves Her, but that's about the end of it - for those whom She's impacted, it seems appropriate to discuss more fully our own e...

Here's another idea regarding a strophalos for consideration. Excerpt from Byzantine Magic by Henry Maquire: One kind of iynx (also called a strophalos) is a magic wheel used by a theurgist for ritual purposes. Psellos himself explains that the strophalos known as the Hecatic was a golden ball with ...

You're certainly welcome, Monsnoleedra. This will allow us to discuss Hekate without derailing other conversations. I hope to see others contribute here, given the nature of Hekate and her rather varied manifestations. To that end, after reading your post I'm amused by how much we align within our ...

Wanderer wrote:Thank you for posting this, monsnoleedra. I'm going to do some more research and probing before responding more fully.

Looking forward to it.

Thanks for sharing, Monsnoleedra. When I've seen the Strophalos in visions, I've always seen it as a wheel, but from above - I couldn't ever make sense of it. This idea of having a kind of spinning globe or brazier might make sense in this context. Has anyone here endeavored to make something of th...