Editing Hecate (section)

===Epithets===
[[File:AN01020070 001 l.jpg|thumb|Sketch of a stone Hecataion. Richard Cosway, British Museum.]]
Hecate was known by a number of epithets:
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* '''Aionios''', or '''Aenaos''' (Aἰώνιος), eternal, agelong, ever-flowing.<ref>[[Greek Magical Papyri]]/PGM IV 2785-2890</ref>
* '''Aglaos''' (Αγλάος), beautiful, bright, pleasing.<ref>[[Greek Magical Papyri]]/PGM IV 2241-2358</ref>
* '''Apotropaia''' (Ἀποτρόπαια), the one that turns away/protects.<ref>Alberta Mildred Franklin, ''The Lupercalia'', Columbia University, 1921, p. 68.</ref>
* [[Brimo]] (Βριμώ), the furious, the avenging, the dreaded, crackling flame.<ref>[[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' 3.1194</ref>
* [[Chthonia]] (Χθωνία), of the earth/[[Greek underworld|underworld]].<ref>Jon D. Mikalson, ''Athenian Popular Religion'', UNC Press, 1987, p. 76.</ref>
* [[Enodia]] (Ἐννοδία), she on the way/road.<ref>Sarah Iles Johnston, ''Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece'', University of California Press, 1999, pp. 208–209.</ref>
*'''Erototokos''' (Ερωτοτόκος), producing love, bearer of love.<ref>[[Greek Magical Papyri]]/PGM IV 2441-2621.</ref>
* '''Indalimos''' (Ινδαλίμος), the beautiful.<ref>Betz, Hans Dieter, ' The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells'', 2nd ed. Univ. Chicago, 1992.</ref>
* '''Klêidouchos''' (Κλειδοῦχος), holding the keys.<ref name="liddell" /> As the keeper of the keys of Hades.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062:entry=claviger-harpers Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Claviger]</ref>
* '''[[Kourotrophos]]''' (Κουροτρόφος), nurse of children.<ref name="liddell">Liddell-Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon''.</ref>
* '''Krokopeplos''' (Κροκόπεπλος), saffron cloaked.<ref name="Forrest">Adam Forrest, ''The Orphic Hymn to Hekate'', Hermetic Fellowship, 1992.</ref>
* [[Melinoe]] (Μηλινόη).<ref>Ivana Petrovic, ''Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp'' (Brill, 2007), p. 94; W. Schmid and O. Stählin, ''Geschichte der griechischen Literatur'' (C.H. Beck, 1924, 1981), vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 982; [[Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher|W.H. Roscher]], ''Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie'' (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 16.</ref>
* [[Phosphoros]], '''Lampadephoros''' (Φωσφόρος, Λαμπαδηφόρος), bringing or bearing light.<ref name="liddell" />
* '''Propolos''' (Πρόπολος), who serves/attends.<ref name="liddell" />
* '''Propulaia/Propylaia''' (Προπύλαια), before the gate.<ref>Sarah Iles Johnston, ''Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece'', University of California Press, 1999, p. 207.</ref>
* [[Soteria (mythology)|Soteria]] (Σωτηρία), savior.<ref name="Johnston 1990"/>
* '''Trimorphe''' (Τρίμορφη), three-formed.<ref name="liddell" />
* '''Triodia/Trioditis''' (Τριοδία, Τριοδίτης), who frequents crossroads.<ref name="liddell" />