The rotting goddess : the origin of the witch in Classical antiquity's demonization of fertility religion

An examination of material relating to the goddess Hekate, and chronicling her descent from Anatolian deity who lights the path to a decaying goddess over magic. It's a very interesting examination of the source material. For those of you familiar with d'Este's books about Hekate, Rabinowitz points

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out something she fails to mention each time: that at one time, apparently black puppies were sacrificed to Her. If anyone has any other material about this along with philosophers claiming of Hekate as superior goddess because She does not ask for blood, please let me know.
It's a book well-worth reading, whether I completely agree with the author's premise remains to be seen. At the core, he seems to also be claiming that the image of the witch comes to us from this slow change in Hekate's image and that perhaps witches themselves were created by it. Thus, instead of Hekate being a Goddess over witches and witchcraft, Rabinowitz attempts to show that instead Hekate morphed into a witch Herself.

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