trivia was the roman name for the goddess hecate.
what was the roman name for the goddess hecate?
trivia
evidence suggests that a confrontation occurred between two groups of etruscans who fought for supremacy, those from tarquinia, vulci and caere (allied with the greeks of capua) and those of clusium. this is reflected in the legend of the coming of orestes to nemi and of the inhumation of his bones in the roman forum near the temple of saturn. the cult introduced by orestes at nemi is apparently that of the artemis tauropolos. the literary amplification reveals a confused religious background: different versions of artemis were conflated under the epithet. as far as nemi's diana is concerned there are two different versions, by strabo and servius honoratus. strabo's version looks to be the most authoritative as he had access to first-hand primary sources on the sanctuaries of artemis, i.e. the priest of artemis artemidoros of ephesus. the meaning of "tauropolos" denotes an asiatic goddess with lunar attributes, lady of the herds. the only possible "interpretatio graeca" of high antiquity concerning "diana nemorensis" could have been the one based on this ancient aspect of a deity of light, master of wildlife. "tauropolos" is an ancient epithet attached to artemis, hecate, and even athena. according to the legend orestes founded nemi together with iphigenia. at cuma the sybil is the priestess of both phoibos and trivia. hesiod and stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death iphigenia was divinised under the name of hecate, a fact which would support the assumption that artemis tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in taurid and her human paragon. this religious complex is in turn supported by the triple statue of artemis-hecate.
diana (mythology)
additional examples of the goddess hecate viewed as a triple goddess associated with witchcraft include lucan's tale of a group of witches, written in the 1st century bce. in lucan's work (luc. b.c. 6:700-01) the witches speak of "persephone, who is the third and lowest aspect of our goddess hecate...". another example is found in ovid's "metamorphosis" (met. 7:94–95), in which jason swears an oath to the witch medea, saying he would "be true by the sacred rites of the three-fold goddess."
triple goddess (neopaganism)