Syncretism of Hekate and Satan?

[minette]

Is this something you’ve encountered or considered? Satan is often artistically depicted as a feminine force, opposing the patriarchal power of Yahweh and Christendom. There appears to be notable overlap between the offices of the two and the way both are imagined in contemporary LHP traditions, but this is only theoretical. Looking for feedback, thanks!

 

[thepolestar]

On the island of Crete, due to heavy Christian influence, there's apparently a saying about how Hekate will drag you down to Hell as she's Satan/Satan's wife or something like this. I've heard of this from Greeks who have told me about the superstition.

The Gnostics also saw Hekate as one of their evil archons, as depicted the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia. Of course, this is all contradicted by the PGM (where she is invoked alongside Hebrew names) and the Chaldean Oracles.

 

[ashlesha]

I think this is the focus of Mark Alan Smith's work, where he works with his own mythology of Lucifer and Hekate being married. I don't think there's much of a historical connection, but totally some overlap.

 

[jzatopa]

Go read the Sefer Yetzirah and Zohar + Torah and you will see something very different then where you go this from.

 

[MorganBlack]

This not part of my personal mythic synthesis, so I wish I had more to suggest here, but..

...in the grimoires, the Three Chiefs at the top of the Infernal Hierarchy often vary between Lucifer, Belzebuth, and Astaroth (LBA) or Lucifer, Beelzebuth, and Satan (LBS). The Grim Verum is LBA.

Satan is often called the 'Prince of the Powers of the Air,' and in the classical worldview, the Sublunar World is the 'Air' between the surface of the Earth and the Moon.

In his Goetic Liturgy Jake Stratton-Kent ritualizes Astaroth as a 'lower' frequency or 'manifestation' of Hecate. I have used this schema and it works, for whatever reason. In the Neoplatonic worldview, Hecate 'is' the World Soul (Anima Mundi), which is encompass the Sublunar realm beneath the Moon. .

Therefore, we might see them as different lenses and forces that allow us to interact with the same 'region.' and in that sense maybe they are "married" as clockwise and counterclockwise forces. We might call Astaroth the Centripetal Force (center-seeking), and Satan the Centrifugal Force ( center-fleeing ) - but I'm just making that up.

That said, I have Neoplatonist brain, so Hecate - as a goddess - would not be a daimon. But far be it from me to make any hard and fast rules. I hope some of that was useful to folks.

 

[Thee Nightfool]

"Chaldean Hekate" is possibly everything and nothing all at once. Is Zeus not "Satanic" in his own way? etc...

Let's all worship the "original" Satan... Lord Hades, of course!

All hail Rex Infernus!