08/20/2026
THE LIST. The beloved Sistrix of Temple Hekate Altar of the Moon were chomping on the bit for a unified list of all the pieces of other lists out there— no tea, no shade, those lists have supplied seekers and devotees alike. Included are names to look deeper into our Queen’s world, its geography, other goddesses, Her Holy titles, and all the many variations on the themes. Names associated with animals, spheres of power, even whole sentences that describe her decadent lifestyle and wine glasses of blood. Please enjoy this list of 339 epithets, give yourself assignments, make lists by elemental affinities, choose which are the most fun in terms of mouthfeel, ‘Borborophorba’ is a particular Temple favorite.
EPITHETS A-Z
A
• Abronoe: Gracious: PGM IV, lines 2441–2621 (specifically, it appears around line 2545 as part of an invocation to Selene-Hekate).
• Adamantaea: Unconquerable, Untamable Goddess: The name of one of the Nymphs that nursed Zeus. Applicable to Hekate.
• Admetos: Unconquered: PGM IV 2708-2784. Also said of Atalanta.
• Aenaos: Eternal, Ever-flowing: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Agallomenen elaphoisi: Rejoicing in Deer: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate; her deep affinity for the wilderness and the hunt.
• Agia: Sacred, holy, saint: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Aglaos: Radiant, bright, beautiful, pleasing: PGM IV 2241-2358. As a term, aglaos connotes festivity and song.
• Agriope: Wild-eyed, Fierce-faced, Savage-watcher, wild-voiced : A name associated with Eurydice, Orpheus’ wife, likely came to be attached to Hekate when the two were conflated. From Orpheus and His Lute: Poetry and the Renewal of Life by Elisabeth Henry, SIU Press, 1992 p. 3. Also, Maass’ Orpheus, 1895.
• Agrotera: Huntress: Epithet for Artemis. Likely applied to Hekate through modern conflation.
• Aidonaea: of the Underworld (lit. of Hades): PGM IV. 2708-84 and PGM IV. 2855. Beware spellings such as Adonaea, which more properly refers to the gardens dedicated to Adonis. Aidonia also may apply to a site in Mycenaea.
• Aimopotis : Blood-drinker, murderer. Carthaginian curse tablet
• Aionaios: Eternal: PGM IV 2241-2621.
• Aizeos: Vigorous: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Akrie: Extreme: PGM IV line 2277.
• Aktinochiatis: Radiant-haired, with rays for hair: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Aktiophis: PGM IV. 2441–2621, an intense spell of attraction where the practitioner invokes the goddess with the opening phrase "AKTIOPHIS ERESCHIGAL NEBOUTOSOUALETH...". again in PGM VII.317–318 as part of a protective phylactery said to the moon.
• Alexeatis: Averter of Evil: 5th-century BCE inscription as an epithet for the Thessalian/Macedonian goddess Enodia, frequently conflated with Hekate
• Alkimos: Strong, stout, brave, powerful: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Amaimaketos: Unconquerable, raging, invincible, uncontrollable: Associated with the Chimera and with the Sea, see Homer: The Poetry of the Past by Andrew Ford (footnote no. 52 on p. 90) and Man, Myth, and Magic: an illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural, vol. 1 by Richard Cavendish, 1971.
• Ambrotos: Immortal: applied to all the Gods and many Titans. PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Ameibousa: to "One That Transforms" or "She Who Changes". This specific epithet is derived from a bronze triangular table discovered in Pergamon (modern-day Bergama, Turkey), which was used in ancient times for theurgy or oracle practices.
• Amphiphaes: Circumlucent: Proclus. Damascius. trans. by Stephen Ronan.
• Amphiprosopos: Double-faced: The Chaldean Oracles, frag 189. also Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism by Kevin Corrigan.
• Amphistomos: Double-mouthed. Proclus’ 5th-century AD commentaries on Plato's Timaeus, Proclus uses "Amphistomos" to describe Hekate's role in governing the cosmic boundaries.
• Anassa: Queen: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate. Applied to a variety of Goddesses.
• Anassa Eneroi: Queen of the Dead: A title most often applied to Persephone.
• Androphonos: Killer of Men
• Angelos: Messenger: The Chaldean Oracles. Associated with numerous Gods. Karl Kerenyi discusses the shared role of Angelos between Hermes and Hekate in Hermes: Guide of Souls.
• Anosia: the Unholy, Kerenyi, 1959
• Antaia: She Who Meets, Besought with prayers: Sophocles’ Rootcutters.
• Antaian Theou: She Who Meets
• Antania: Enemy of Mankind
• Aoroboros: Devourer of the Untimely Dead: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Apanchomene: The Hanged One, The Strangled, One Who Hanged Herself: assoc. with Artemis in particular, but Farnell mentions a story about a woman Artemis named Hekate after she hanged herself.
• Aphrattos: Unnamed One: In “Taranto” by Enzo Lippolis, Salvatore Garraffo, Massimo Nafissi by the Instituto per la Storia e l'Archeologia della Magna Grecia, 1995, p. 194- 5.
• Apotropaios: Averting, Averter: Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) 42 1816.
• Archikos: Royal: The Chaldean Oracles, xx (Psellus) and xxbis. See Ronan.
• Aregos: Helper: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Ariste: The Best: See Zeus: A study in ancient religion which posits that Ariste Chthonia is Hekate. The epithet also applies to Artemis and Demeter.
• Arkyia: Entrapper: PGM III.1-164
• Arrhretos: Ineffable
• Astrodia: Star-coursing, Star-walker: PGM IV 2441-2621. See Pachoumi’s “A List…”
• Atala: Tender, delicate: Hesiod’s Hymn to Demeter.
• Atala Phroneousa: Gay-Spirited: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
• Atasthalos: Reckless, Presumptuous, Wicked: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Athanatos: Immortal, of Immortal Fame: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Autopheus: Self-Begotten: PGM 4.2274.
• Azonos: without Borders: See The Chaldean Oracles, xx (Psellus), Ronan.
• Azostos: Ungirt, without a belt: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
B
• Baubo: Hekate’s chthonic underworld authority with Baubo’s themes of primal, embodied, and apotropaic power. The Orphic Hymn to Hekate. Also, Farnell’s Cults of the Greek States vol. 2, p. 507.
• Baridoukhos: skiff-holder, barque-holder, the one who has a boat: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Bolos: Far Thrower
• Boopis: Cow-eyed: PGM IV.2708-84.
• Booporos: Ox-Herder: As Hekate was historically called Ox-Herder (Bookolos), the title fits.
• Borborophorba: Eater of Filth: Greek Magical Papyri, 1402, 1406.
• Boukolos: Ox Herder
• Brimo: Angry One, The Terrifying, of Crackling Flames : Apollonios Rhodios 3.861-63, 1246. Also applied to Persephone, Demeter, and Cybele.
• Bythios: Abyssal, of the Deep: PGM IV 2441-2621. Can also mean ‘of the Sea,’ but scholars have typically interpreted this as a reference to Chthonic powers in this context.
C
• Charopos: Fierce, grim, flashing, bright, having blue-grey eyes, of the Sea: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Chrysopis: Golden-faced: PGM IV 2241-2358. Applied to many Gods, including Leto and Helios.
• Chrysosandalos: of Golden Sandals: The Hymn of Hekate-Erechkigal, Greek Magical Papyri LXX.
• Chrysosandalaimopotischthonia: Goddess of the Lower World wearing golden sandals and drinking blood: found on a curse tablet.
• Chrysostephanos: Golden-crowned, crowned with splendor: PGM IV 2241-2358. Also given to Herakles and Aphrodite.
• Chthonia: see Kthonia of the Earth: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
D
• Dadophoros: Torchbearer: Well-attested in sculpture and coins.
• Dadouchos: Torchbearer
• Daeira: The Knowing One, Teacher: A nymph and lover of Hermes who was sometimes conflated with Persephone and Hekate, according to the Perseus Project.
• Daidalos: Cunning: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Damasandra: Subduer of men: PGM IV 2785-2890. An epithet for the Moon.
• Damnameneia: She who Subdues by Force: PGM IV lines 2850-1. See Pachoumi.
• Damnadamia: Subduer of Subduers
• Damnomene: Means of Constraint
• Daspleti: Frightful: PGM IV. 2785-2890.
• Deichteira: Teacher: PGM IV 2241-2358. See Pachoumi’s.
• Deinos: Terrible: The Chaldean Oracles, xli (Proclus), Ronan.
• Despoina: Mistress, Lady: From Aeschylus, Fragment 216, Hekate is called Lady. Despoina was also an Arkadian Goddess of Fertility and daughter of Demeter in her own right. Many Goddesses were called Despoina.
• Dione: The Goddess: Dione is a goddess in her own right that came to be conflated with Hekate. From the Oracle Table of Pergamom. Source: Hekate die dunkle Gottin by Thomas Lautwein.
• Dodonie: of Dodona: PGM IV line 2275. See Pachoumi.
• Doloeis: Astute, subtle, wily, cunning: PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Drakaina: Serpent/dragon: PGM IV 2241-2358.
E
• Eidolios: Ghostly, fantasmal: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Eileithyia: nurse of Childbirth: Goddess of midwives, conflated with Artemis and Hekate.
• Einalian: of the Sea: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Einodia Thygater Demetros: Daughter of Demeter, who is of the Road: See Farnell, who attributes the phrase to Euripides. Travelling expenses… of uncertain appelation with Hekate. Inscription in a museum associated with the Temple of Zeus in Nemea.
• Ekdotis: Bestower: The Chaldean Oracles. Lewy and Des Places applies this to Had, the First Father, but Johnston and Ronan say it applies to Hekate.
• Ekklesia: of the Assembly: See Ronan.
• Elaphebolos: Shooter of Deer, Deer-huntress: PGM IV 2441-2621. Also belongs to Artemis.
• Elateira: Driver, Charioteer: The Chaldean Oracles. Originally an epithet given to Artemis.
• Ellophonos: Fawn-slayer: Hymn to Selene-Hekate-Artemis. PGM IV 2714-83.
• Empousa: Empusa: The Scholiast on Apollonius’ Argonautika, Rohde’s “Hekate’s Hordes.”
• Empylios: at the Gate: See the Orphic Argonautika 902, as well as an inscription in a museum associated with the Temple of Zeus in Nemea.
• Empyrios: Empyrean: The Chaldean Oracles. See Ronan and Johnston.
• Enodia: of the Path: Pausanias’ Description of Greece 3.14.9, Hippocrates Of Sacred Disease, and The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Epaine: Awe-inspiring, glorious, sublime: Historically applied to Persephone. Yet the meaning of this epithet certainly applies to Hekate.
• Ephodia: Traveling Expenses
• Ephoros: Guardian, overseer: Possibly derived from the name Ephesos. No evidence of connection to Hekate, though it seems appropriate.
• Ephthisikere: Destroying Death: PGM IV line 2852. Betz keeps this as a Voces Magicae.
• Epigeioi: of the Earth: a class of deities that includes Hekate, according to Artemidorus.
• Epiphanestate Thea: Most Manifest Goddess: “The Privileges of Free Nontributary States” by Sulla, 81 BCE.
• Epipurgidia: on the Tower: Pausanias’s description of Athens.
• Episkopos: Guardian, one who watches over, overseer: PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Epiteichea: The Stronghold, Fort: see Der Apollon-Delphinios-kult in Milet und die Neujahrsprozession nach Didyma by Alexander Herda.
• Epitymbidia: sepulchral: Closely associated with Aphrodite.
• Erannos: Lovely: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Ergatis: Energizer: The Chaldean Oracles. Lewy and Des Places applies this to Had, the First Father, but Johnston and Ronan say it is Hekate.
• Erigeneia: Daughter of the Morning, Early-born. PGM IV 2785-2890. An epithet for the Moon.
• Erototokos: Producing Love, who bore love, bearer of love: PGM IV 2441-2621. Also an epithet for Aphrodite.
• Esthle: Good: Hesiod’s Theogony, 435, 439, 444.
• Eukoline: Good tempered: grave stele in Athens. Additionally Kallimachos refers to Hekate Eukoline. Additionally, could be applied to Eileithyia.
• Eupatereia: Noble-born: PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Eupatepepetia: Noble Born
• Eurippa: Horse-finder: Robert Brown, Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology, Williams and Norgate, 1898.
• Eurostochos: Wide-Aimed: PGM IV lines 2281-
G
• Geneteira: Mother: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Genetyllis: Birth-helper: The Goddess of Childbirth whose name came to be a title of Artemis and Aphrodite. A class of goddesses of midwifery, the Genetillides. See A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith, 1873. Pausanias also highlights the similarities between Hekate and Genetyllis.
• Gigaessa: Giant: PGM IV 2708-2784. See Pachoumi’s “A List…”
• Gorgo: The Grim, the Gorgon: A.B. Cook’s study of Zeus, vol.3, part 2, and Rohde’s “Hekate’s Hordes.”
H
• Hecatoncheires: Hundred-handed: The Chaldean Oracles
• Hegemonen: Guide: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Hegemoye: Queen
• Helike: Revolving
• Hersechthonia: Speaking from Below
• Hexacheira: of six-ways, of six hands. Several reliefs show Hekate with six hands, and thus could apply. I simply haven't found an example of it being used historically.
• Hipparete: Horse Speaker
Hiera: Holy One
• Hieros Pyr: Holy Fire: The Chaldean Oracles, See Johnston and Ronan.
• Hippokyon: Mare Bitch, Horse-dog: PGM IV 2441-2621. An epithet for the Moon.
• Hippoprosopos: Horse-Faced: PGM IV 2441-2621. An epithet for the Moon.
• Hypolampeira: of unknown meaning: hypolamp* words generally have to do with the quality of light, hypolampros translates as ‘rather bright’ as of the stars, while hypolampes suggests ‘shining with inferior light’: Thomas Lautwein. lampe- implies lamp or light.
I
• Indalimos: Beautiful: PGM IV 2241-2358. Perhaps related to Indalmos, which suggests form.
• Iokheaira: One who shoots Arrows: PGM IV 2241-2358. Shared with Artemis.
• Ippokyon: Mare Dog
K
• Kalligeneia: Bearing beautiful offspring: PGM IV 2785-2890. An epithet also used to describe Demeter in the Thesmophoria.
• Kalliste: Fairest: Thomas Lautwein says the PGM refers to Hekate as Kalliste.
• Kalkaea: Wearer of High Boots: The word seems to have no relation to boots of any sort.
• Kapetoktypos: Tomb-disturber, causing the noise of lamentation: PGM IV 2785-2890. Betz translates it as “who makes grief resound,” and Pachoumi as “the one who makes the graves to resound.”
• Kardiodaitos: Heart-Eater, Feasting on Men’s Hearts: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Kareia: of Karia, Kraus.
• Karko: Lamia: See Rohde’s “Hekate’s Hordes.”
• Katachthonia: Subterranean: Demotic Text 74.
Kata(kam)psypsauchenos: Bending down necks that show off: PGM IV lines 2718-9.
• Kelkaia: unknown
• Keratopis: Horned-faced, Horned-looking: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Keroeis: Horned: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Khthonia: Of the Underworld; Of the Earth: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Kleidoukhos: Keeper of the Keys: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Klothaie: Spinner of Fate, of Klotho: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Komas: of the Revel: The Chaldean Oracles, see Ronan.
• Kore: Maiden: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Kourotrophos: Child’s nurse, nurse of youths: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate. Shared with Artemis and Eilytheia.
• Kratais: The Strong One, of the Rocks: Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautika.
• Krokopeplos: Saffron-cloaked: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Kunolygmatos: Doglike Howler
• Kydimos: Glorious: OGM IV 2241-2358. Also the name of several priests known from inscriptions.
• Kynegetis: Leader of Dogs: Orphic Hymn 36.5.
• Kynokephalos: Dog-headed: A.B. Cook’s Zeus and Ronan.
• Kynolygmate: Howling like a Dog, who howls dog-like: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Kyon: Bitch
• Kyon Melaina: Black Dog: Thomas Lautwein says this epithet is to be found in the PGM.
• Kyria: The Powerful, Supreme: A.B. Cook’s Zeus and Ronan.
L
• Laginitis: of Lagina, possibly: The city of Idrias had a temple to Hekate Laginitis. : See A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae, vol. 2 by Charles T. Newton, R.P. Pullan, 1863.
• Lampadephoros: Lamp-bearer, torch-bearer, who warns of nighttime attack. : Associated with the Mysteries of Phrygia. The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia by William Ramsay. Suidas describes a statue dedicated to Hekate the Torchbearer for saving the city of Byzantium from Philip of Macedon.
• Lampadios: Torchbearer, Lampbearer: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Leaina: the Lioness: Porphyry, Fragmenta III, 18. See also Kraus’ Hekate, p. 32-33.
• Leontoukhos: Holding A Lion: Psellus’ Chaldean Oracles fragment 148. Michael Italicus Letter XVII, 182.26.
• Leukophryne: white-browed or of the white-browed hill: The Prognostikon of Pergamon. See Thomas Lautwin. Closely associated with Artemis at Magnesia, might come from conflation.
• Limenitikos: of the Harbor, Harbor Goddess: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Limenitis: Harbor Goddess
• Limenoscopos: Of the Threshold, Watcher of the Havens, On the Harbor, Watching the Harbor
• Liparokredemnos: of the bright-headband, Bright-coiffed: The Homeric Hymn to Hekate.
• Liparoplokamos: Brilliant Braided
• Lochias: Protector of Birth, Goddess of Chilbirth
• Lothaie: The One with Crest: PGM IV line 2267.
• Lykaina: She Wolf
• Lyko: Wolf-formed: PGM IV.2241-2358
M
• Maera: Shining: In Ovid’s Metamorphoses connects the story of a woman Maera turned into a dog with Hekate.
• Mageus: One who Kneads, potentially has roots in the word 'Magi.'
• Makairapos: Blessed One: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Mastigophoros: Scourge-bearing: The Chaldean Oracles. See Ronan and Johnston.
• Meander: twists and turns of the immortality cycle
• Medusa: Protector: For information on the relationship between the Gorgons and Hekate, see Ronan. They are definitely related. And of course, the Gorgones face-mask was used to fend off evil, as on Athene’s Aegis. Medousa’s name derives from medo, meaning to guard or protect. PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Meisopomenos: Laborer of the Moon
• Meisoponeros: Vice-hating: from a Capitoline inscription that is mentioned by Farnell. Also see Kopp’s Paleoepigraphica.
• Megiste: Greatest: Sarah Iles Johnston mentions this Hellenistic Carian epithet in Restless Dead, p. 206.
• Melaine: Black: A stele in Phrygia calls Black Hekate’s curse upon those who intrude upon the tomb.
• Melaneimon: Black-clad, wearing black: PGM IV 2441-2621. An epithet associated with the Furies.
• Melinoe: Soothing One: The Orphic Hymn to Melinoe, in which she is described as sharing a lot of traits with Hekate. Found as an epithet for Hekate on the Prognostikon of Pergamon in Thomas Lautwin’s Hekate: die dunkle gottin.
• Mene: Moon: See Rohde. PGM IV 2241-2358. PGM IV 2441-2784.
• Mitrie: With a Headband: PGM IV lines 2274-5.
• Moira: A Share, Fate: Connections between Hekate and the Moirae seem to be largely speculative with no firm historical evidence.
• Monogenes: Only Child: Hesiod’s Theogony, 11.404-452.
• Monoprosopos: With One Face
• Mormo: She-monster. See Cook and Rohde.
• Munychia: of unknown meaning, possibly of the village Munychia. An epithet of Artemis associated with the Attic military port of the same name. See Women of Classical Mythology by Robert Bell, Oxford, p.312. Also Farnell, p. 473.
N
• Nekyia: Mistress of Corpses: PGM III. 1-164.
• Nerteria: Infernal, Subterranean
• Nerterios: Infernal, Nether One: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Nerteron Prytanin: Mistress of the Dead: Thomas Lautwein. The Nerteroi are Chthonic Spirits.
• Nekuia: Mistress of Corpses: PGM III 1-59.
• Noeros: Intellective: The Chaldean Oracles, vii. Ronan.
• Nomaios: Pastoral: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Nykhia: Nocturnal, of the Night: PGM IV 1390-1495.
• Nyktairodyteira: She that rises and sets by night, Night-riser and setter, who rise and set by night: PGM IV 2441-2621. Commonly given to the Moon.
• Nykteria: of the Night: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Nykti: of the Night: From the Oracle Table of Pergamom. Source: Hekate die dunkle Gottin by Thomas Lautwein.
• Nyktiboos: Night-Shouter, Night-Crier
• Nyktipolos: Night-wandering: Orphic Argonautika.
• Nyktophaneia: Night-shining: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Nymphen: Bride: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Nyssa: Goal, beginning, turning post, ambition: PGM IV 2241-2358.
O
• Oistropheia: Manifester of Madness
• Oistroplaneia: Spreader of Madness, Causing the Wanderings of Madness: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Oksyboe: Shrill Screamer
• Oletis: Destroyer
• Olkitis: Who Draws Swords: PGM IV lines 2267.
• Opaon: Follower: The Homeric Hymn to Hekate.
• Ophioplokamos: with Snaky-Curls, Coiled with Snakes: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Ophiothrix: Serpent-haired: created by me for the purposes of describing Hekate's snake-haired figure which is found in various texts.
• Oriplanos: Mountain-wandering: PGM IV 2441-2621. Ori translates ‘hill’ or ‘mountain,’ and planos means ‘wandering,’ but this word is absent from the LSJ or Strong’s.
• Oroboros: Tail-Eating: Defixiones Tabellae 41, part of a spell incantation.
• Ourania: Celestial, Heavenly: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Ouresiphoites: Wanderer in the Mountains: the Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Oxythymia: Quick to Anger?: Aristarchus says that oxythymia are gallows trees. See Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Su***de in Greek Tragedy by qElise P. Garrison, Brill Press.
P
• Paggenneteira: Mother of All
• Paionios: Healer: PGM IV 2241-2358. Also applied to Apollon. Name of the sculptor of the Nike of Samothrace.
• Pammetor: Mother of All: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Pandamateira: All-tamer, all-powerful, all-subduer. PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Pandina: possibly something about whirling or rotating, but largely unknown. : See The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative and War Medals, Books and Cabinets, vol. 16, Spink & Son, 1908, p. 10308
• Pandoteira: All-giver, Bestower of Everything, bounteous: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Pangaios: World-wide: PGM IV 2241-2358. Also the name of a mountain associated with Rhesos. Pachoumi translates it as ‘holding the whole earth.’
• Panopaea: All-seeing, panorama: The name of a Nereid.
• Panopaia: All-Seeing
• Panta Ephepousa: Unknown meaning: The Prognostikon of Pergamon. See Thomas Lautwin.
• Panphorba: One who Eats Everything: PGM IV line 2749. Betz chooses to keep this as a voces magicae.)
• Pantos Kosmou Kleidokhos: Keeper of Keys of the Kosmos: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Pantrophos: All-nurturing: PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Panupata: Most High: PGM VII line 700. The prayer is associated with Brimo.
• Parthenos: Virgin: The Chaldean Oracles.
• Pasikratea: Universal Queen: The Prognostikon of Pergamon. See Thomas Lautwin.
• Pasimedousa: Ruling over All: The Prognostikon of Pergamon. See Thomas Lautwin.
• Pasiphaessa: Wide-Shining: An epithet of Aphrodite.
• Patrogenes: Father-Begotten: The Chaldean Oracles.
• Pege: Source: The Chaldean Oracles: See Damascius, Ronan and Johnston.
• Pege Psychon: Source of Souls: The Chaldean Oracles, x (Psellus), xii (Psellus), and xlii (Psellus), Ronan.
• Perseian: daughter of Perses: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Persephone: to cause or bring Death: The Prognostikon of Pergamon. See Thomas Lautwin. Possibly through conflation with the Goddess of the same name.
• Persia: Persian: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Phaenno: Brilliant: PGM IV 2241-2358. Name of one of the oracles of the Roman Era, Phaenno of Epirus.
• Phaesimbrotos: Bringer of Light: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Phaetho: Radiant
• Pheraea: of Pheraea, daughter of Zeus and Pheraea (daughter of Ae**us)
• Phileremos: Lover of Solitude: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Philoskylax: Lover of Dogs: Nonnus 3.24.
• Phoberos: Fearful: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Phoebe: Bright: From the Oracle Table of Pergamom. The epithet is also associated with Artemis and Apollo. Source: Hekate die dunkle Gottinby Thomas Lautwein.
• Phoinikopeza: Ruddy-footed: Pindar’s Paean 2. Also applied to Demeter.
• Phos: Holy Light, Light: PGM IV 2241-2358. Often used to describe the light of the Moon.
• Phosphoros: Light-bearer: Artemidoros. See also Euripides Helen, 569.
• Photoplex: who strikes with light: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Phroune: She-toad: JGR Forlong’s Encyclopedia of Religions or Faiths of Man pt. 1 p. 269. This is also one of the sources of the idea that Hekate and Heqet might share common origins, an idea that has been thoroughly debunked by scholars of both Egypt and Greece.
• Phthorenes: Ruin-bringer, Corruptor: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Phylake: Guard, Who keeps watch and ward: PGM IV 2708-2784.
• Physis: Nature: The Chaldean Oracles.
• Podarke: Fleet-footed: PGM IV 2241-2358. Also an epithet for Achilles.
• Polyboteira: Generous Giver of Nourishment: I've yet to find evidence of this specific epithet, though Kerenyi describes Hekate as Nourishing.
• Polykleitos: Much renowned, far-famed: PGM IV 2241-2358. Also the name of a sculptor from Sicyon.
• Polymorphos: Many Formed, Many Shaped
• Polyodynos: One who Suffers, suffering many pains, who suffers much: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Polyonumos: Many-named: PGM IV 2708-2784. This epithet applies to many Gods.
• Polyonymos: Many-named
• Polyplokamos: of many Tentacles; with many Feelers: from an ancient poem.
• Potnia Theron: Mistress of Animals, Lady of Wild Beasts: a title first found in Minoan society, and applied to various Goddesses. Rabinowitz in his book on Hekate hints at scholarly debate over the application of this epithet to Hekate.
• Presbeia: Ancient, Elder: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Presbeira: Ancient
• Prodomos: Of the Vestibule, literally Before the House: Aristophanes’ Fragment 388.
• Prokathegetis: She who goes down before: Kathegetis means teacher or guide. Hekate certainly fits.
• Promethikos: with forethought: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Propolos: She Who Leads, Guide, Companion: see archimedes.fas.harvard.edu ’s entry on the term Propolos.
• Propolousa. Guide, companion, servant. Sophocles, The Root Cutters.
• Propylaia: One before the Gate: See Tooke’s Pantheon of the Heathen Gods and Illustrious Heroes by Francois Pomey, 1823, p. 178.
• Prostistos: Primordial
• Prothegetis: Leader
• Prothyraea: Before the Gate: The Orphic Hymn to Prothyraea doesn’t explicitly use Hekate’s name, but carries many of Her traits, and it uses the names of Diana and Eileithyia, both of who were conflated with Hekate.
• Protistos: Primordia, the very first: The Chaldean Oracles. See Ronan.
• Prytania: misunderstood to translate as "Invincible Queen of the Dead" but it is more likely a connection to the Council Chamber, the Prytania.: See The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology: An Inquiry by Richard Payne Knight, p. 26 for a discussion of the Prytania.
• Psychopompe: Soul-Guide: a psychopomp is a class of beings with the responsibility of guiding souls into the afterlife.
• Pyriboulos: of Fiery Counsel: PGM IV.2751.
• Pyridrakontozonos: Girt with Fiery Serpents.: PGM IV 1390-1495.
• Pyripnoa: Breathing Fire: PGM IV.2727. see also Michael Clark, Revenge of the Aesthetic, U.CA, 2000.
• Pyriphoitos: Firewalker: PGM IV 2708-2784. Often an epithet for Persephone.
• Pyrphoros: Fire-bearer: May also be interpreted as torch-bearer. See Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, vol. 2. p. 516.
R
• Rexichthon: Earth-cleaver: Hymn to Selene-Hekate-Artemis, Greek Magical Papyri IV 2714-83.
• Rexipyle: DoorBreaker, She Who Throws Down the Gates
• Rhododaktylos: Rosy-fingered: Traditionally an epithet of Eos. Though Eos and Hekate share the epithet saffron-cloaked, there is no evidence that Hekate bore the name thus far.
• Rixipyle: She who throws down the gates: PGM 2751.
S
• Sarkophagos: Flesh-eater: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Skotia: of the Dark, of the Gloom: Diodorus I describes Hekate Scotia as worshiped in Egypt. The title was also associated with Aphrodite in Egypt.
• Skylakageia: of unknown translation, other than having something to do with dogs. Thomas Lautwein.
• Skylakitin: Lady of the Dogs: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Soteira: Savior: see Hekate Soteira by Sarah Iles Johnston for a great exegesis. This epithet has been given to many different Gods and Goddesses.
• Speirodrakontozonos: Girt in Serpent Coils: See Michael Italicus’ Letter 17, as quoted in Stephen Ronan’s The Goddess Hekate.
• Stratelatis: Leaders of Hosts. Highlights her martial, sovereign, and commanding aspect, presenting her not just as a guardian of crossroads, but as a powerful leader who commands spirits and guides forces
• Strophaia: Standing as a porter at the door hinge: Mentioned by Farnell that it was inherited from Hekate to Artemis.
T
• Tartaroukhos: Ruler of Tartaros: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Taurodrakaina: Bull snake, Bull dragon: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Taurokarenos: Bull-headed: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Tauromorphos: Bull-formed: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Tauropolos: Bull-herder: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Tauropis: Bull-Faced
• Taurorouchos: Ruler of Tartarus
• Tergeminus: of Triple-Birth: An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis, American Book Co. 1890.
• Tersimbrotos: One who delights mortals, gladdens mortals, gladdens the hearts of men: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Tetrakephalos: Four-headed: The Chaldean Oracles. See Ronan and Johnston.
• Tetraoditis: of the four-ways, haunting crossroads, mistress of the Four-Roads: PGM IV 2441-2621. An epithet for the Moon.
• Tetraonymos: Four-named: PGM IV 2441-2621. An epithet for the Moon.
• Tetraprosopos, Tetraprosopeine, Tetraprosopinos: Four-headed, Four-faced: The Chaldean Oracles. See Ronan and Johnston.
• Thanategos: Death-bringing: PGM IV 2785-2890.
• Thea Deinos: The Dread Goddess: ολγ5. ,, Apollonius θ Argonautica 3.1194
• Therobromon: Roaring like a Wild Beast, of the City of the Beast: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate
• Theroktonos: Beast-slayer: PGM IV 2441-2621. Also given to Artemis as an epithet.
• Thrinakia: Thrace, Triple-pointed, of three extremes, triple: PGM IV 2441
• Tletos: Patient: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Triaucheros, Triauchenos: with Three Necks: Lycophron’s Alexandra 1186.
• Triceps: Three-formed: Ovid’s Metamorphoses 7.194.
• Trikephalos: Three-headed: numerous sources, coins, and statuary.
• Trikaranos: Three-headed: PGM IV 1390-1495.
• Triktypos: Triple-sounding: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Trimorphos: Three-formed: numerous sources, coins, and statuary.
• Trioditis: Of the Three Roads: Athenaeus.
• Trionymos: Triple-named: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Triphthoggos: Triple-voiced, having three voices: PGM IV 2441-2621.
• Trivia: Of the Three Ways: The name for the Roman Goddess of the Three Roads.
• Tymbidian: sepulchral: The Orphic Hymn to Hekate.
• Tymborychos: Gravedigger, to indicate her sinister, destructive, and potentially deadly nature. Kerenyi, 1959
Z
• Zatheos: Divine: PGM IV 2241-2358.
• Zerynthia: of Mount Zerynthia: See Gimbutas’ Old Europe, p. 197. Likely named after Zerynthos in Lagina.
• Zonodrakontos: Covered in Snakes, Intertwined with snakes: The Chaldean Oracles.
• Zoogonos: Seed of Life: Psellus’ Chaldean Oracles.
• Zootrophos: Nourisher of Life: The Chaldean Oracles.
