Candles are used to get the Queen of the Underworld to hear your plea, see thru the veil & doorways and to ward off evil spirits much like an Indian god, Ganesh, at entrances and exits. She is used for banishing magic, prayed to when contacting the spirit realm or deceased loved one. She is a triple (three-headed) Greek Goddess of the crossroads.
"HEKATE (Hecate) was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titanes Perses and Asteria from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea.Hekate assisted Demeter in her search for Persephone, guiding her through the night with flaming torches. After the mother-daughter reunion became she Persephone's minister and companion in Haides.Three metamorphosis myths describe the origins of her animal familiars: the black she-dog and the polecat (a mustelid house pet kept by the ancients to hunt vermin). The dog was the Trojan Queen Hekabe (Hecuba) who leapt into the sea after the fall of Troy and was transformed by the goddess. The polecat was either the witch Gale, turned as punishment for her incontinence, or Galinthias, midwife of Alkmene (Alcmena), who was transformed by the enraged goddess Eileithyia but adopted by the sympathetic Hekate.Hekate was usually depicted in Greek vase painting as a woman holding twin torches. Sometimes she was dressed in a knee-length maiden's skirt and hunting boots, much like Artemis. In statuary Hekate was often depicted in triple form as a goddess of crossroads.Her name means "worker from afar" from the Greek word hekatos. The masculine form of the name, Hekatos, was a common epithet of the god Apollon.Hekate was identified with a number of other goddesses including Artemis, Selene (the Moon), Despoine, the sea-goddess Krataeis (Crataeis), the goddess of the Taurian Khersonese in Skythia, the Kolkhian (Colchian) nymph Perseis, the heroine Iphigeneia, the Thracian goddesses Bendis and Kotys(Cotys), the Euboian nymph Maira (the Dog-Star), the Eleusinian nymph Daeira and the Boiotian nymph Herkyna (Hercyna)." theoi.com
Offerings to Hecate: if possible leave out either some raisin cakes, chocolate, and/or display of masks.
General Symbols: Torch, new moon, crossroads, three-headed animals/statues, raisin and currant cakes, masks, candles, the number 3, stars, and the night sky.
Plants: Willows, dark yew, blackthorn, groves of trees, saffron, pumpkins and other gourds, raisins, currants, and any night blooming plants such as moonflowers or night lilies.
Animals: Snakes, dogs, horses, bats, owls, boars, and sheep (especially black female ones).
Colors: Black, orange, yellow-orange, and red-orange.
Scents: Cinnamon, honey, myrrh, mugwort, lime, lemon verbena, and Queen of the Night (a very light floral scent).
Gemstones/Metal: Sapphire, silver, gold, moonstone, black tourmaline, black onyx, hematite, smoky quartz, and any stone that is black, dark, or luminous.
Good background article on her:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/keepingherkeys/2018/06/hekate-21st-century-triple-goddess/?fbclid=IwAR1xKHgTuqna1imYy2on37sNK-AdvueYE7AmQZSz6hD5TLJfdOLJiPmvjLY
"To contact a loved one's spirit, set a magic mirror on your altar. Before gazing, crumble white sage around the mirror to attract the spirit. Then ask, Hecate's help with these words:
"" Hecate, dark goddess of spirits, ghosts, and all that lies beyond the gravestone,
Please bring me a vision of the spirit I seek in human form,
When they were flesh, blood and bone."
(James Kamboa, The Witches's Datebook, 2018)
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