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>>44525899
Hecatia is way too much of a dork to attract anything other than literal dogs.

>>31850763
I think of her as a benevolent goddess with mostly hands-off approach towards her realms, though she won't shy away from having some fun time there.

>>28349178
Hecatia should've won the Zeusbowl. Hera fucking sucks.

>>21035521
Momiji doesn't have a theme in the first place

Heckers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6chUtSef4

>>19589636
Going even further, the title of Queen of Heaven was in the time of antiquity most often given to Inanna, more commonly known in the modern era as Ishtar, who was the ancient Sumerian Goddess of love, war, beauty, and justice, whose patron temple was the Eanna in the city of Uruk. It is important to note that Inanna was a heavy influence on the Phoenician goddess Astarte, who in turn was a large influence on the Greek goddess Athene. However, Inanna was not always Ishtar, and the two were originally separate deities. Inanna may have originally been Hannahanna, who was also named Hepat (also called Hebat). Inanna was described as being a youthful goddess and that initially, she lacked a distinct sphere of responsibilities, which only points to the idea that Inanna was added to the Sumerian pantheon, as her name in cuneiform do not mean Lady of Heaven, despite her name possibly being derived from it. If we are to believe Hecatia is Hecate and Hecate is Arinniti who is dUTU URU who is Inanna who is Hepat, then Hecatia isn't a Greek or even Proto-Greek goddess of witchcraft, necromancy and crossroads, but a Proto-Anatolian/Mesopotamian chief bronze age goddess of the sun and the underworld.

It is worth noting that Inanna did not become Ishtar until after the conquests of Sargon of Akkad and him attributing the source of authority to Inanna and another god named An.

>>17743484
Heca looks good especially in clothing from antiquity

>>17452964
Junko and Hecatia

>>16803957
Hecate is canonically a virgin

Some of her epithets are like "Kore Monogenes"
which mean "Only-Begotten Maiden", meaning that she is an only child and a virgin

This also means that OP is full of shit, Heca doesn't have any siblings!

Her religion really depends where you try and place her origin.

Hecate's associations with necromancy, witchcraft and poisons were most typically expressed by more highly Hellenized peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. These associations mostly stemmed from her primary association with "liminal" places; she was said to guard house thresholds, crossroads and city gates, all of which were considered vulnerable to very material evils such as burglars and bandits, but also to otherworldly evils such as ghosts or monsters. This "liminal" aspect is primarily evidence in Greek sources by some of Hecate's epithets (Examples include such as 'Propylaia' meaning "Of the gates", Apotropaia "who turns away", and Kleidouchos "key-bearer").
Because the divine wilderness was primarily dominated by another virgin goddess, Artemis, and that travelers and door thresholds were primarily protected by Hermes, Hecate in the Greek world was mostly relegated to the protection of the thresholds between this world and the others. This mostly meant that Hecate, like Hermes and Xanatos would function as a 'psychopomp'; one who leads the dead into Hades. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Hecate is shown performing a psychopompic fuction, as Hecate leads Demeter into Hades to allow her to search for her daughter, Persephone. Like other psychopomps, Hecate became associated with necromancy and other “chthonic” (underworldly or earthly) aspects: one of Hecate’s epithets outright calls her “of the underworld” (Chthonia). Chthonic goddesses required specific sacrificial rites: Offerings were to be burn in or on the ground as opposed to on an altar. Such rites were not atypical of non-Indo-European fertility and household goddesses, who would, like Hecate, be classified as chthonic when incorporated into the Greek pantheon.
Her redundancy as a goddess to the Greeks, leading to her associations with the unsavory world of witchcraft, would likely mean that she was imported to the Greeks, or was a vestige of an earlier, pre-Greek and pre-Indo-European belief system. Some Greek accounts of Hecate hold her to be a Titaness who joined forces with the Olympian gods during the Gigantomachy (As depicted on the eastern frieze of the Altar to Zeus of Pergamon). In Greek belief, the Titans were originally sovereign gods but were later overthrown by their children, the Olympian gods we all know and love, who then became gods themselves. That Hecate would be spared destruction during the Titanomachy, be allowed to join the Olympians in later battles and be present among them as a goddess might be a preserved cultural memory which etiologically explained that Hecate was originally part of a non-Indo-European pre-Greek belief system that was later adopted into the Indo-European Greek pantheon.
Some schools of thought hold that Hecate was originally an all providing Carians house-goddess who protected houses (obviously), as well as travellers as they went into the wilderness, providing them with light (as suggested by her epithet Phosphoros, literally “light-bringer”). In Caria, a region in Anatolia (modern day Turkey), a number of beliefs promoting Hecate as such a goddess seem to be represented by her widespread representation in Carian theophoric baby-names and in Hecate-exclusive cultic sites. Though the Carians themselves were Indo-European, like the Greeks, they had a markedly different pantheon and settled Caria in a different migration wave: Thus, if Hecate was of pre-Indo-European origin, the Carians might have adopted her into their religion in a different fashion then the Greeks did. Until further archeological work is done in Caria (Literally nothing has happened since the 70s), we won’t know anything more about Carian religion, and what sort of relationship the Carians might have had to the worship of Hecate. If the Carians can be shown to have syncretized Hecate into their religion, then perhaps it can be evidenced to have originated before Indo-European involvement in the area.
Even on the Greek mainland, certain minority populations might have treated Hecate more favorably than typical. Hesiod’s “Theogony”, a geneology of the Greek pantheon, gives Hecate a rather privileged description and champions her as a goddess favoured Zeus, to whom all men should dedicate rich sacrifices (Hes. Th. 410-450). As this description seems incommensurable with other Greek portrayals of Hecate as a goddess of necromancy, witchcraft, and the underworld, some scholars take this as evidence that Hesiod’s favorite 2hu was Hecatia, or that Hesiod’s original village was an archaic pocket of pre-Indo-European Hecate folk worship which survived into Greek times.
All things considered, assuming Hecatia can be part of her own religion, then my favorite touhou’s religion might be pre-Indo-European polytheism, OLD EUROPE MATRIACHAL GODDESS WORSHIP if we believe the Kurgan Hypothesis

>>15918166
I like this outfit on Heca