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Hecate
The Keys and the Threshold
Opening a path also requires knowing how to return.
Explore Hecate in poems, hymns, objects and later receptions. Preserve the differences between the sources that attest to her and discover twelve contemporary devotional ceremonies on care, choice, gratitude and return.
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- Hesiod, the Hymn to Demeter and other Greek sources situated in context.
- Keys, torches, paths and triple figures without reducing them to a single interpretation.
- Objects, images and later receptions with references establishing their provenance.
- Twelve contemporary devotional ceremonies with everyday objects and formulas originally composed in Spanish, translated into English.
- Reading workshops, preparation, closing and recording of each practice.
You can follow the historical journey without doing the practices. If you choose to explore them, you will find contemporary compositions clearly identified as such, with preparation, practice and closure.
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- Read the source. Recognise the creation.p. 6
- The Keys and the Thresholdp. 7
- A name across witnessesp. 8
- Hecate's Honoursp. 9
- An Honour within a Poemp. 10
- Genealogy Situates the Goddessp. 11
- Drawing a Genealogy with Limitsp. 12
- Honours Reaching through Everyday Lifep. 13
- Recognising a Specific Activityp. 14
- She Who Hears and Accompaniesp. 15
- A Witness Who Does Not Know Everythingp. 16
- Hearing, Seeing and Accompanyingp. 17
- Three Verbs, Three Relationshipsp. 18
- Return Also Needs Companyp. 19
- Accompanying after the Returnp. 20
- One Figure, Three Figuresp. 21
- Counting Figures Is Not Enoughp. 22
- An Attribution Is Not an Originalp. 23
- Preserved Object and Attributed Modelp. 24
- Keys, Roads and Hymnic Voicep. 25
- One Key and Two Scalesp. 26
- The Orphic Invocation and Its Translationp. 27
- Finding a Text without Depending on Its Numberp. 28
- Medea and Hecate in the Argonauticap. 29
- Reading a Scene's Intensityp. 30
- A Wounded Voice in the Second Idyllp. 31
- Hearing a Character without Obeying Themp. 32
- The Table and the Month's Endp. 33
- What an Allusion Leaves Openp. 34
- Comedy, Food and Inequalityp. 35
- Food within a Discussionp. 36
- Lagina: a Goddess in the City's Lifep. 37
- A Question Appropriate to Laginap. 38
- Dogs, Night and Attentionp. 39
- Recording an Ordinary Soundp. 40
- Reception Has a History Toop. 41
- Following a Change of Mediump. 42
- From Ancient Image to Present-Day Devotionp. 43
- Explaining a Present-Day Compositionp. 44
- Hecate around an Axisp. 45
- Describing a Partial Viewp. 46
- The Torches of Returnp. 47
- Situating Light in a Reunionp. 48
- A Scene with Several Godsp. 49
- Not Assigning Every Attribute to One Figurep. 50
- Diana and Hecatep. 51
- Preserving an Artistic Attributionp. 52
- Hecate in Woodp. 53
- Looking at Wood without Restoring It in Wordsp. 54
- Hecate and the Gracesp. 55
- Distinguishing Groups in a Hekataionp. 56
- The Nymphs in the Printp. 57
- What a Print's Title Addsp. 58
- A Goddess on an 1889 Cardp. 59
- A Commercial Label and a Broad Historyp. 60
- Symbols with provenancep. 61
- Preparing the tablep. 62
- The form of the ceremonyp. 63
- Twelve ceremoniesp. 64
- 01 · THE GREETING OF THE THRESHOLDp. 65
- 01 · Sequence and closingp. 66
- 01 · Reading and recordp. 67
- An Opening in a Shared Placep. 68
- 02 · THE TWO LIGHTSp. 69
- 02 · Sequence and closingp. 70
- 02 · Reading and recordp. 71
- Offering Company without Anticipating the Responsep. 72
- 03 · THE THREE ROADSp. 73
- 03 · Sequence and closingp. 74
- 03 · Reading and recordp. 75
- When Three Options Are Unavailablep. 76
- 04 · THE THREE REALMSp. 77
- 04 · Sequence and closingp. 78
- 04 · Reading and recordp. 79
- Gratitude without Appropriationp. 80
- 05 · THE KEY OF SAFEGUARDINGp. 81
- 05 · Sequence and closingp. 82
- 05 · Reading and recordp. 83
- Safeguarding Something That Is Not Yoursp. 84
- 06 · THE BRIEF TABLEp. 85
- 06 · Sequence and closingp. 86
- 06 · Reading and recordp. 87
- A Brief Table without Wastep. 88
- 07 · THE DISCREET PRESENCEp. 89
- 07 · Sequence and closingp. 90
- 07 · Reading and recordp. 91
- A Presence Respecting Distancep. 92
- 08 · CARE FOR WHAT BEGINSp. 93
- 08 · Sequence and closingp. 94
- 08 · Reading and recordp. 95
- Caring for a Small Beginningp. 96
- 09 · CONTEMPLATING THE TRIPLE FIGUREp. 97
- 09 · Sequence and closingp. 98
- 09 · Reading and recordp. 99
- Contemplating without Imposing Three Agesp. 100
- 10 · PRAISE OF THE NAMESp. 101
- 10 · Sequence and closingp. 102
- 10 · Reading and recordp. 103
- Choosing Words You Understandp. 104
- 11 · DEPARTURE AND RETURNp. 105
- 11 · Sequence and closingp. 106
- 11 · Reading and recordp. 107
- A Return That Can Be Interruptedp. 108
- 12 · THE VOW OF THE TENDED LIGHTp. 109
- 12 · Sequence and closingp. 110
- 12 · Reading and recordp. 111
- A Commitment Allowing Reviewp. 112
- How to keep a recordp. 113
- Record of a sessionp. 114
- Motif and composition · 1p. 115
- Motif and composition · 2p. 116
- Words for reading · 1p. 117
- Words for reading · 2p. 118
- Sources consulted · 1p. 119
- Sources consulted · 2p. 120
- Images and rights · 1p. 121
- Images and rights · 2p. 122
- Returning to the bookp. 123
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