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Hecate's powers date “from the very beginning,” Hesiod informs us, in his seventh-century B.C. poem The Theogony, and we may perhaps take him literally. Even though the detailed features of Hecate are lost in the “dark backward and abysm of time,” much may be responsibly inferred from her geography [Hecate's great temple at Lagina], which alone suggests pre-Olympian, Pre-Titanic and even primaeval origin.