Diana takes the form of Hecate at the crossroads and the threshold of death — the bright huntress turning dark, ruling over magic, ghosts, and the liminal boundaries where the living world gives way to the underworld.
Hecate guards the crossroads and thresholds of the Underworld, guiding souls through liminal passages between the living and the dead.
Greek Hecate was adopted directly into Roman religion as Hecate or Trivia, the goddess of crossroads and nocturnal sorcery, retaining her triple form and association with the underworld and magic.
Hecate heard Proserpina's cries during the abduction and later helped Ceres search for her daughter, becoming an attendant of Proserpina in the underworld.
In the Aeneid, the Sibyl invoked Hecate as 'powerful in heaven and hell' before leading Aeneas into the underworld. Hecate's chthonic authority sanctioned the Sibyl's passage through the realm of the dead.
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