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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Hecate
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**Domain**: Witchcraft, crossroads, the moon, ghosts, the liminal
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**Symbol**: Torches, keys, the three-way crossroads, black dogs, the serpent
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**Roman Equivalent**: Trivia ("of the three ways")
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## Overview
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Hecate is the goddess of witchcraft and the threshold — the power that lives wherever one road becomes three. Daughter of the Titans Perses and Asteria, she predates the Olympians and was allowed by [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus) to keep her ancient honors across earth, sea, and sky. She is often shown triple-formed, three bodies facing three directions at once, holding torches to light what is otherwise hidden. She belongs to the places between places: doorways, boundaries, the dark of the moon, the moment before a choice. To pray to her was to ask for safe passage across a line.
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She is not sinister so much as unbound. She keeps company with ghosts and hounds, walks the night, and answers to no one — the tutelary spirit of anyone standing at a crossroads unsure which way to turn.
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## Key Myths
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**The witness at the abduction.** When [Hades](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hades) carried Persephone below, Hecate alone heard the girl's cry from her cave. She came to [Demeter](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/demeter) with her torches and joined the search, and afterward became Persephone's attendant and companion in the underworld — the one goddess who moves freely between the world above and the world below.
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**Keeper of the keys.** Hecate holds the keys to the gates between realms. As a goddess of the crossroads she is invoked at boundaries and turnings, and offerings — "Hecate's suppers" — were left for her at three-way junctions on the night of the new moon, food set out in the dark for the goddess and her dogs.
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**The moon's dark face.** Where [Selene](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/selene) is the full and shining moon and [Artemis](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/artemis) the crescent huntress, Hecate is the moon gone dark — the third face of the lunar triad, presiding over magic, the underworld, and the hour when the world is least visible and most porous.
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## Related
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- [The Moon](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/the-moon) — The Major Arcana card whose archetype she embodies: the unconscious, the night road, what the moonlight half-reveals
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- [The High Priestess](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/the-high-priestess) — The keeper of hidden knowledge and the threshold between worlds
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- [Selene](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/selene) — The shining moon to her dark one; the lunar triad
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- Persephone — The queen she attends between the worlds
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- [Moon](/knowledge/astrology/planets/moon-astrology) — The luminary of her domain
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- [Tarot](/knowledge/tarot)
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Greek Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology)
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- Hecate (System 777) — Her presence as a member of System 777
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