Life Source Goddess - Hekate

(Jan 29, 2023) Hekate is preserver and recycler of life powers created by Alu and passed down to the earth by Hu's life network as fertility-fluids. As such she represents the dark under-dome which is also the home of dead souls/spirits. She is associated with dark caves, subterranean waters, and deep pools. She is a part of the balance of life with the middle layer sun god Hu whose transmited fertility-fluids are manifested as light and heat. In the right amount they produce prosperity and healing but too much and they produce drought and death.

Hekate is an Akkadian word from He.Kate meaning "Hu's depleting power" or "the power which depletes Hu") The /e/ suffix indicates the deity's power is being referenced and not the persona. The following are the Lexicon entries:

Greek writer Hesiod (500 BCE) in his book Theology says this about Hekate starting in line 404:

(July 3, 2022) The earliest representations of a goddess are the Venus figurines from the Mesolithic period.

About 90% of all Venus figurines start out white carved from limestone, bone, or ivory, Some percentage of these were colored red with red ocher to indicate their life power.

(Jan 29, 2023) This previously untranslated Alphabetic Akkadian text was found at Tell es-Safi which was the Philistine city of Gath. This shard is from a bowl with a smooth red slip. It reads (right to left):

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 9)

1. A Bu KaTe |
2. Ku Bu

In English

1. This is for nourishing Kate (Hekate) | 
2. On account of nourishing t[ ]

This text was first reported in 2006 and published in 2008. It is on a type of pottery which belonged to to the time between the late Iron Age I to early Iron IIA. This dates it to about 1000 BCE. Gath was the reported home of Goliath in the Bible (1 Samuel 17). 

This pottery shard was found in an industrial/commercial area as a cast-away on the floor of a heavily used room. Based upon the number of bones on the floor this room seems to have been a food preparation area. The bowl has a thin red slip which allowed the letters to be scratched with little effort.

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(Feb 26, 2023)  

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 27)

1. Lu  TuŠu  GaBu  Nu (Levant Text 27.1)
2. KaTe  Nu  Ya  Esu   (Levant Text 27.2)

In English. 

1.  Lack of hostility reveals the cistern (life source waters of Alu)
2.  Kate (Hekate) is not revealing the percolation

Previous Hebrew Translation Attempt

The discovery report claims the letters are (letter differences in red):

1. LTAR  BN  
2. MTHYHS  

Which makes the name:

1. "Ikkar Ben 
2. Matanyahu" 

This is a failed translation due to the following:

1. Incorrect letter assignments
2. The last letter "S" is left out of the English translation
3. Names are not a translation because they can be any cluster of letters 

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Translation in Akkadian (Celt Text 1.5.6)

1. KaTe Pu
2. EGu

In English

1. Kate (Hekate) is opening
2. neglect

(July 12, 2022) The (two and only two) "Minoan" snake goddess were found in one of the Knossos palace's trash pit known as the east Knossos Temple repository. It contained various damaged ritual items used during this period.  (Sinclair 2013):

1. many fragments of faience figurines 
2. vessels with molded designs
3. beads
4. molded plaques of ‘votive robes’ 
5. suckling goats
6. cattle
7. flowers
8. leaves
9. shells
10. flying fish
11. fruit 
12. a figure of eight shields 

In addition, the repository contained stone libation bowls, a large quantity of colored sea shells, clay administrative sealings, a clay tablet, ivory inlays, bone, burnt maize and stag horns. All of which were placed under a jumble of soil, gold foil and some forty ceramic amphorae and jugs which were used to provide a date for the collection of between 1650 and 1600 BCE.

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