Hecate&Trivia
Magic, Crossroads, & the Moon
Hecate
Hecate Triformis
Twin torches, keys, dogs, the crossroads, the moon
A Carian goddess of the liminal who was honoured by Zeus above all others.
Watchful and ambiguous — she grants favour, and she also sends the restless dead.
The Deipna: 'suppers' of dog-meat left at crossroads on the dark moon.
The threshold as a place of both danger and power.
Trivia
Trivia, of the Three Ways
Three-faced image, torches, dogs, the compita
An Italic goddess of the crossroads whose name means 'where three roads meet'.
A neighbourhood guardian of boundaries, invoked by ordinary households.
Offerings at the compita during the Compitalia.
Magic domesticated into local, civic protection.
Syncretism Analysis
Hecate is the fearsome queen of witches and ghosts; Trivia is a crossroads guardian honoured by neighbourhood shrines. Rome kept the ritual and dropped the terror.