Crossword-Solution: HEKATE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Evidently Shakespeare had this story in his mind when he wrote the scene of the descent of Macbeth into the cave of Hekate.

Then came to them Hekate of the fair wimple, and often did she kiss the holy daughter of Demeter, and from that day was her queenly comrade and handmaiden; but to them for a messenger did far-seeing Zeus of the loud thunder-peal send fair-tressed Rhea to bring dark-mantled Demeter among the Gods, with pledge of what honour she might choose among the Immortals.

The relation between Artemis and Hekate is an illustration of the process of coördination and harmonization that went on continually among the Greeks.

Hekate does not appear in Homer, but in Hesiod she has the full form of a great deity--she exercises control over heaven, earth, and sea;[1360] and at a later period she becomes similarly connected with the Underworld.

When ten days were passed she met Hekate, and asked her about her child; but Hekate said, "I heard her voice, as she cried out when some one seized her; but I did not see it with my eyes, and so I know not where she is gone." Then she went to Helios, and said to him, "O Helios, tell me about my child.