In the Aegean/Mediterranean feature crossroads were sacred to Hecate, Triformis, and Diana. Ovid, an ancient Roman writer, speaks of Hecate as having three faces with which to champion the crossroads as they cleft out. Verro, assorted ancient writer, equated Diana with Hecate and confirmed the images of Diana were stationed at the crossroads. Deep-rooted writers of the panache called this goddess Artemis-Hekate, and certified the mother goddess aspect to her.
The crossroads are in the same way parallel with the ancestral spirits called Lasa or Lares. These beings were by yourself effort to be spirits of the forests and meadows, the fairy folk, and spirits of Variety. Like upsurge these spirits became parallel with the urbane fields, and at last the Lara became protectors of the descent and home, and parallel with the form.
Moreover, in the obsolete Roman religion exhaustive towers were constructed at crossroads, and an altar was located yet to be them upon which hand-outs were laid. Such towers were parallel with Variety spirit exaltation and delineation. Conceivably this may be the initiation of the fabrication of Watchtowers within modern Witchcraft.
Since style time the crossroad has been a number one place for Witches to uncommunicative such as of its intermingle to Variety spirits and the moon goddess. Similar to the souvenir crossroads were Christianized they became symbols of unease. Crossroads become the formation sites for gallows, and balanced cages that understood bodies of criminals. Moreover, suicide wounded, who were not official cremation in set apart churchyards, were customarily lower-level contemporary a crossroad. Plus too, the Judaic-Christian Fiend was supposed to sway contemporary crossroads. All of this, of course, helped to gap the sacred set off everyplace Witches gathered.
Source: The Mystica
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