The Black Book of Hecate | Roy the Grim Reaper

The cult of Hecate is one of the types of cults dedicated to the Mother Goddess in various forms. Hecate is not a pure deity for the practices of necromancy, the left-hand path, Wicca or other similar directions. Many make unsuccessful attempts to work with her from one or another tradition of witchcraft, approach Hecate one-sidedly, incompletely, biased.

The Mother Goddess is one, her cult carries a collective image of a parent, protector, patroness, destroyer, destroyer. The cult of the Mother Goddess can be traced in many religions, directions of witchcraft and magic of various peoples - these are Damate, Kali, Mara, Kubeba, Ekatia, Makosh and others, only the names change, but not the essence. All of them are presented in different aspects from the creator of life to the brutal killer.

The cult of Hecate is also one of the types of ancient witchcraft, we can say that the practitioners of Hecate are more correctly called witches and witchers.

In the tradition of witchcraft, the word "witch" is ascended to the Indo-European roots of "Vedas" and "Ma", which means "To know the Mother". In addition, the root "STEM" has been added to the roots of "Vedas" and "MA".". It means "trunk, base" in the meaning of "art, craft, path". Thus, witchcraft is the way to know the Mother.