Hecate
Hecate or Hekate, , ; grc-dor, Ἑκάτᾱ, Hekátā, ; la, Hecatē or . is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depict ...
is a Titaness in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Hecate or Hekate may also refer to:
Fictional characters
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Hecate (''Dune'')
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Hecate (Marvel Comics)
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Hecate (''Shakugan no Shana'')
*Hecate, queen of the witches in ''
Macbeth''
*Hecate, a member of
Xavier's Security Enforcers in Marvel comics
*Hecate, a character in ''
Hellboy
Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in ''San Diego Comic-Con Comics'' #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossover ...
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Ships
*, the name of several Royal Navy ships
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USS ''Hecate'', known earlier as USS ''Etlah'', a single-turreted, twin-screw monitor laid down in 1864
Other uses
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Hécate'', a 1982 French-Swiss film
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Hecate (Amazon), a mythological Amazon who fell at Troy
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''Hecate'' (journal), an Australian feminist academic journal
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Hecate (musician) (born 1976)
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''Hecate'' (William Blake) or ''The Night of Enitharmon's Joy'', a 1795 work of art
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100 Hekate
Hekate (minor planet designation: 100 Hekate) is a large main-belt asteroid.
About
This is a stony S-type asteroid with a diameter of and a sidereal rotation period of . It orbits in the same region of space as the Hygiea asteroid family, th ...
, an asteroid
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Hecate Strait
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, a strait in British Columbia, Canada
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Hecate Island
Hecate Island is an island on the British Columbia Coast, Canada, located between Queen Charlotte Sound and Fitz Hugh Sound to the north of Calvert Island
Calvert Island is an island in Whitefish Bay, Lake of the Woods in Kenora District, Ont ...
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2,5-Dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine or Hecate, a psychedelic drug
*''Hecate'', an 0-8-0 tank locomotive built for the
Kent & East Sussex Railway
See also
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Memoirs of Hecate County
''Memoirs of Hecate County'' is a work of fiction by Edmund Wilson, first published in 1946, but banned in the state of New York until 1959, when it was reissued with minor revisions by the author. After falling out of print it was republished in ...
'', a 1946 book by Edmund Wilson
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PGM Hécate II The Hécate II is the standard heavy sniper rifle and anti-materiel rifle of the French Army, sometimes known as the FR-12.7 (french: Fusil à Répétition de calibre 12.7 mm or "12.7 mm calibre repeating rifle"). It is manufactured by PGM Pr ...
, a French sniper rifle
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