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    Hekate Garlic

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    Garlic has historically been offered to Hekate as a symbol. While sources note this association, the document seeks to uncover the specific reasons behind it. It finds that garlic was believed to ward off serpents and cure madness, attributes that connected to Hekate's domain. Further, Hekate was associated with crossroads, where garlic wreaths were left as offerings. The document thus concludes that Hekate became tied to garlic through her protective and healing properties.

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    Garlic has historically been offered to Hekate as a symbol. While sources note this association, the document seeks to uncover the specific reasons behind it. It finds that garlic was believed to ward off serpents and cure madness, attributes that connected to Hekate's domain. Further, Hekate was associated with crossroads, where garlic wreaths were left as offerings. The document thus concludes that Hekate became tied to garlic through her protective and healing properties.

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    Garlic has historically been offered to Hekate as a symbol. While sources note this association, the document seeks to uncover the specific reasons behind it. It finds that garlic was believed to ward off serpents and cure madness, attributes that connected to Hekate's domain. Further, Hekate was associated with crossroads, where garlic wreaths were left as offerings. The document thus concludes that Hekate became tied to garlic through her protective and healing properties.

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    Hekate Garlic

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    Mikki Manuel McCoy
    Garlic has historically been offered to Hekate as a symbol. While sources note this association, the document seeks to uncover the specific reasons behind it. It finds that garlic was believed to ward off serpents and cure madness, attributes that connected to Hekate's domain. Further, Hekate was associated with crossroads, where garlic wreaths were left as offerings. The document thus concludes that Hekate became tied to garlic through her protective and healing properties.

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    Name of the symbol: Garlic Ive read through several books and online articles, looking for information

    on garlic and how it is related to Hekate. Plenty of sources list garlic as an offering to Her, but I was unable to personally find any information as to the WHY. The closest I have come to finding a possible reason is in Plants of Life, Plants of Death By Frederick J. Simoons. There are suggestions of such thinking in the report that the odor of garlic keeps away serpents and scorpions and that the ancients used raw garlic to cure madness. It is likely no accident that Hecate, chthonic goddess of sorcery who brought on or cured illness, was offered garlic in the form of a wreath to accompany the suppers provided for her at crossroads, which, as we have seen, were associated with her, and that Hecate was believed to punish with madness anyone who dared eat her suppers. Despite the rise of Christianity, Hecate and crossroads offerings did not disappear. Crossroads offerings persisted as late as the eleventh century, when there were reports of the Church attempting to put an end to them. Hecate herself, moreover, led the well-known witch ride of medieval times. (7) He also goes on to state on page 145, that there was a secret Romanian society that would use garlic to help cure those believed to be sickened by fairies. Their sponsor was Doamna Zinelor, who represents an altered Romanian version of Diana. He then states In later Roman religion, Diana was associated with Artemis and the chthonic goddess Hecate.(7) In this way, Hecate is again tied to garlic, maybe a further explanation as to why She associated with garlic.

    Sources: (1)Hekate Soteira by Sarah Iles Johnston 1990 (2)The Temple of Hekate by Tara Sanchez 2011 (3)Hekate by Jade Sol Luna May 2009 (4)Hekate II by Jade Sol Luna Dec 2009 (5)Hekate Her Sacred Fires by Sorita d'Este 2010 (6)Hekate Liminal Rites by Sorita d'Este 2009 (7)Plants of Life, Plants of Death By Frederick J. Simoons. 1998 p 143-144, 145

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