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Hekate descends to Earth (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



 		Keywords
Chaldean Oracles
gods
necessity
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
No channel specified

Text
Chaldean Oracles 219*:
For all (the gods) say that they have come by Necessity, not simply so, but in a manner - so to speak - of persuasive Necessity. Earlier, we mentioned those (verses) of Hekate by which she is said to appear: “After daybreak, boundless, full of stars, I left the great, undefiled house of God and descended to life-nourishing earth at your request, and by the persuasion of ineffable words with which a mortal man delights in gladdening the hearts of immortals.”

Source (list of abbreviations)
Chaldean Oracles 219*

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 134-135Majercik, Ruth. The Chaldean Oracles. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1989.

Amar Annus


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