From the Archives: Hekate Companion Project - Artemis

In 2018 a group of members of the Covenant of Hekate collaborated in the Hekate’s Companion Project, exploring deities which they perceived to be companions of Hekate and ultimately writing hymns to Hekate and these gods and goddesses.

This hymn to Hekate and Artemis was one of the results.‌

Io Artemis-Hekate, our Eternal Queens,

Together you roam the lightest of days

And the darkest of nights,

Companions to each other and animals hoovedAnd of flight.

Like the shadows and shades whereOur fairest are found,

Beasts of the wild to them are so bound.

Shape shifting goddesses you borrow their forms,

Reminding us that through you all can be reborn.

Huntress, your arrows once lauchedBring grat change,

Mother Bear, do you bring us blessing or bane?

Now onto the hounds of pale Hekate’s horde,

Their black silent power so often adored.

We honour you both,

Goddesses swift as the deer,

Companion and prey to the Archer without fear.

Lit by her guides' torches, her arrow hits deep.

Under their moon light, their honor we keep.

Now down to the underworld,

From daylight so freed,

With the goat and the bull following their lead.

Return now to earth,

Where the horse works the land,

And onto the upper world,

Hail the fiery serpent so grand.

Creating our world, and changing with time,

Yet the beasts that do heed them forever entwined,

Io Hekate-Artemis, our affections are thine.