Hecate's Garden

The garden of Hecate, wherein she grew her poisonous plants and medicinal herbs, was on found Phasis. It was next to the Imperial city of Aetes surrounded by insurmountable walls nine fathoms high, protected by seven bastions and guarded by three iron towers. High on the posts of the tower stood Artemis, radiating a trembling brilliance, with a horrifying gaze no mortal could withstand, if he did not approach with gifts and purification offerings.”

~ Johann H. Dierbach, Flora Mythologica oder Plfanzenkunde in Bezug auf Mythologie und Symbolik der Griechen und Römer

*Description of Hecate’s garden from Orphic Songs of the Argonauts*

“There was a grove in the innermost room of the enclosure,

Where lush green wood ascends with shadowy tips,

Laurel trees and cornelian cherry and slender planatos aloft.

There are also many herbs in this place, arching over the deep roots;

Klymenos, complete with the noble asfoldelos, and adiantos,

Aristeron, most tender of plants, and kypeiros with thyron,

Kyklaminos, like the violet, and erysimon, complete with hormion,

Stoichas, then paiona, surrounded by thickets of polyknemon.

Then polion, mandragoras also, and pale diktammon,

Krokos with sweet scent, and kardamom, next to kemos,

Smilax, dark poppy, and low chamamelon,

Panakes and alkeja, with karpason and akaoniton…

And many more poisonous rose up from the ground.”

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