Hekátē in Later Traditions
Hekátē absorbed many minor deities of thresholds, ghosts, and night. In Roman religion she was identified with Trivia, the goddess of crossroads, and fused with the lunar Diana and the underworld Proserpina into the famous 'triple Hecate' of later art — three bodies back to back, facing down three roads. In Egypt she was associated with Isis and Nephthys as a goddess of magic. The Hellenistic and Roman world saw her cult spread through household rituals and curse tablets; her name appears in hundreds of magical papyri. In modern Neopaganism she is perhaps the most widely worshipped Greek goddess, embodying feminine magical autonomy — a continuity of practice spanning two and a half millennia, from the triodos of a Greek village to the altar of a twenty-first-century witch.