BEARING TORCHES

Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate
By the Editorial Board of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Price: $17.99
Publication Date: November 30 2009
ISBN/EAN13: 1449917046 / 9781449917043
Page Count: 200
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.5"x8.5"
Table of Contents

Hekate is, without question, one of the most popular goddesses in the world today, worshiped by Hellenic Recons, Wiccans, and Neo-pagans alike.

Hekate has many roles and many guises. To some she is a beautiful maiden, to others the dark mother. She has been called the guide of souls; the protector of the home; the giver of wealth; the mistress of powerful magic and frightful witches; the dweller on the threshold and the place where three roads meet.

These and other aspects of the goddess are explored in the pages of this unique book, which honors Hekate’s diversity by collecting a wide array of offerings from her modern-day devotees, including poetry, essays, short stories and accounts of personal experiences.

Whether you’ve worshiped Hekate for ages or are just now discovering the power of this awesome goddess, you will want to read Bearing Torches.

Bearing Torches is the fourth devotional anthology in Neos Alexandria's Bibliotheca Alexandrina series, a collection of books dedicated to the gods of Greece and Egypt.  

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However, if possible, we would ask you to purchase it through Createspace since that will give the Bibliotheca Alexandrina a higher portion of the royalties without changing the price for you. Why does that matter? Because all of the proceeds from Bearing Torches – as well as many of the other volumes in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina series – will be used to help promote the revival of the worship of the Greek and Egyptian gods, with 25% of the proceeds given to a worthy charitable organization in their name.  So, not only will you be getting a wonderful book about the modern worship of Hekate – but your money will be going to do good work and help the revival of ancient polytheistic religions.

We are rebuilding the Library of Alexandria one book at a time!

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BEARING TORCHES: TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
The Key Bearer by Michael Routery
Finding My Way to Hekate by John Drury
Hecate in My Life by Allyson Szabo
She Meets Me at the Crossroads and Shows Me the Way by Krysta S. Roy
A Triad for Hekate by Rebecca Buchanan
Who is Hekate? by Amanda Sioux Blake
Shaking the Bones by Melitta Benu
To Hekate by Corbin
Devotional Prayer to Hekate by Antonella Vigliarolo
Hekate, the Dark Goddess by Diotima
Ashes for Hekate by Amanda Sioux Blake
Heliotrope Hedgerow by Christa A. Bergerson
Queen of Darkness, Heaven and Earth by Frederick Villa
To Hekate Trimorphis by Lykeia
Calling Across the Nights Invocation by Pax / Geoffrey Stewart
Daughter of the Night by Bettina Theissen
Lady of Hounds by Amanda Sioux Blake
Devoted to One of the Lady’s Hounds by Bronwen Forbes
Lady of the Hounds by Diotima
Hekate’s Bitch:  Hecuba and Other Greek Traditions of Cynanthropy by Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Ph.D.
Hekate Devotion by Marian Dalton
Dark Moon Light by Christa Bergerson
Prayer to Hecate by Holly Cross
Invocation to Hekate by E. A. Kaufman
Saffron Robed by Diotima
Dancing Hands by Holly Cross
Hekate’s Offering by E. A. Kaufman
Windsong by Bettina Theissen
Serving Her by Allyson Szabo
On the Modern Worship and Understanding of Hekate by Lykeia
Hekate by Hearthstone
Oblation by Holly Cross
My Journey With Hekate by Krysta S. Roy
Apology to Hekate by Jennifer Lawrence
On the Edge by Jeremy J. Baer
Finding Hecate Where Three Roads Meet by Pax / Geoffrey Stewart
Hekate Soteira by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
Hekate, Briefly in a Dream... by Renee Rhodes
Long Beach, Hekate by Todd Jackson
Hekate at Lagina and Çatalhöyük by Tim Ward
The Dark Mother by Dee Estera Fisher
Fourth of July Torchbearer by K.S. Roy
Night-Time Prayer to Hekate Antaia  by Antonella Vigliarolo
Hekate Found by Scott B. Wilson
My First Time by Holly Cross
Hekate’s Devotion by Shay Morgan
Hekate’s Deipna and Other Devotional Acts by Venus Clark
To Hecate by Hearthstone
A Prayer to Hekate by Kenn Payne
To Hekate by Emily Carding
Celebrating the Deipnon by Cara Schulz
Charge of the Dark Queen by Frater Eleuthereus
Aoros by Rebecca Buchanan
Contradiction in Terms by Allyson Szabo
Hecate by Vicki Scotti
Daily Prayer for Guidance by Krysta S. Roy
Seasons of the Witch: Hecate and the Wheel of the Year by Leni Hester
Pale Hekate by Jacinta Cross
Flower of Fire: Hekate in the Chaldean Oracles by Edward P. Butler
Prayer to Hekate by Rebecca Buchanan
Trivia by Sannion
Crossroads by Melia Suez
Hecate’s Rising by Brian Seachrist & Lori Newlove
Gatekeepers, Way-Clearers, Mediators: Wepwawet (or Anubis and Hermanubis), Hekate, and Ianus in the Practices of the Ekklesía Antínoou by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
Serpent Hair by Rebecca Buchanan
Hermes and Hekate by Sophie S.
Song for Hecate by Rhiannon Asher
Maternal Hecate by Allyson Szabo
Hymn to Hekate by Lykeia
A Prayer to Hekate by Hearthstone
Daughter of Night by Todd Jackson
Some Epithets and Unfamiliar Terms Explained
Select Bibliography
Some Online Resources
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