Editing Hecate (section)

===Etymology===
Potential Greek source words have been suggested for the goddess's name. The word ἑκών, meaning "willing" (thus, "she who works her will" or similar), may be related to the name Hecate.<ref>At least in the case of [[Hesiod]]'s use, see {{cite book |first=Jenny Strauss |last=Clay |title=Hesiod's Cosmos |url=https://archive.org/details/hesiodscosmos0000clay |url-access=registration |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003 |page=[https://archive.org/details/hesiodscosmos0000clay/page/135 135] |isbn=0-521-82392-7 }} Clay lists a number of researchers who have advanced some variant of the association between Hecate's name and will (e.g. Walcot (1958), Neitzel (1975), Derossi (1975)). The researcher is led to identify "the name and function of Hecate as the one 'by whose will' prayers are accomplished and fulfilled." This interpretation also appears in Liddell-Scott, ''A Greek English Lexicon'', in the entry for Hecate, which is glossed as "lit. 'she who works her will'"</ref> However, no sources suggested list will or willingness as a major attribute of Hecate, which calls this assertion into question.<ref name=mooney>Mooney, Carol M., "Hekate: Her Role and Character in Greek Literature from before the Fifth Century B.C." (1971). Open Access Dissertations and heses. Paper 4651.</ref> Another Greek word suggested as the origin of the name Hecate is Ἑκατός ''Hekatos'', an obscure epithet of [[Apollo]]<ref name="s.v. Hecate"/> interpreted as "the far-reaching one" or "the far-darter".<ref>{{cite book |first=P. E. |last=Wheelwright |title=Metaphor and Reality |year=1975 |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/metaphorreality0000whee_u1f6/page/144 144] |isbn=0-253-20122-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/metaphorreality0000whee_u1f6/page/144 }}</ref> This has been suggested in comparison with the attributes of the goddess [[Artemis]], strongly associated with Apollo and frequently equated with Hecate in the classical world. Supporters of this etymology suggest that Hecate was originally considered an aspect of Artemis prior to the latter's adoption into the Olympian pantheon. Artemis would have, at that point, become more strongly associated with purity and maidenhood, on the one hand, while her originally darker attributes like her association with magic, the souls of the dead, and the night would have continued to be worshipped separately under her title Hecate.<ref>Fairbanks, Arthur. A Handbook of Greek Religion. American Book Company, 1910.</ref> Though often considered the most likely Greek origin of the name, the Ἑκατός theory does not account for her worship in Asia Minor, where her association with Artemis seems to have been a late development, and the competing theories that the attribution of darker aspects and magic to Hecate were themselves not originally part of her cult.<ref name=mooney/> [[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]] rejected a Greek etymology and suggested a [[Pre-Greek]] origin.<ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]], ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'' (2010), Brill, p. 396.</ref>