#basileia

HEY GUYS, this week Paranormal Panic is reaching its first anniversary and to celebrate we've put together this little trailer ;w;

So, i found these really old notes and thought it was hilarious how after all these years Renato actually became a protagonist (he was originally a very secondary character)

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) AMMAN — A team of scholars involved in the North-Eastern Petra Project (NEPP) investigated for the first time a whole quarter of the ancient city and not merely a single building. The idea was to identify remaining structures and their interrelations, said Marco Dehner, a German scholar who completed his studies in archaeology and ancient history at Berlin's Humboldt University.

'A first hypothesis deals with the idea that this area, indeed, could have been served as a sort of palatial complex or Basileia,' said Dehner, adding that the results show that this area, between the Wadi Musa in the south, Wadi Mataha to the west and north and the Al Khubta massive to the east, is a unique accumulation of buildings and structures of very high standard in Petra, which are somehow separated from the rest of the city centre.

According to Dehner, the most important artefacts documented during the investigations were architectural elements of high quality from the identified structures.

'Those findings seem to confirm a first building phase in the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD. The project was mainly undertaken as a survey, no more special finds could be recorded so far,' he added.

Basileia

Queen, Dominion, Reign, Kingdom

The LSJ provides the meaning of King, Captain, Judge, Prince, Royalty, Lord, Master, and various other magisterial titles for the related word Basileus, for which Basileia is the feminine form.

Not many scholars have talked about Hekate’s queenly aspect. What we do have comes from The Orphic Hymn to Hekate:

Hekate of the path, I invoke thee, lovely lady of the triple crossroads, Celestial, Chthonian, and Marine One, lady of the saffron robe. Sepulchral one, celebrating the Bakchic Mysteries among the souls of the Dead, Daughter of Perses, lover of solitude, rejoicing in deer. Nocturnal one, lady of the dogs, invincible queen. She of the cry of the beast, ungirt one, having an irresistible form. Bullherder, keeper of the keys of all the universe, mistress, Guide, bride, nurturer of youth, mountain wanderer. I pray Thee, maiden, to be present at our hallowed rites of initiation, Always bestowing Thy graciousness upon the Boukolos. - via the Hermetic Fellowship.

Basileia is associated with a range of Goddesses, and there are altars to a Goddess known simply as Basileia. Hera Basileia exists, as does Chthonia Basileia. There’s also Basileia Brimo, another of Hekate’s names, which may have come from conflation with a Goddess named Brimo. Farnell tells us that references to Artemis Basileia (who can be depicted as a triplicity) are actually references to Hekate, and draws a connection to Artemis Bousbatos.  

Duane Roller says that the term was always rarely applied, and that by the 5th c. BCE the term had fallen out of use in favor of the term basilissa.

Herodotus tells us about Artemis Basileia, that She received agrarian offerings while Artemis Pheraia took human sacrifice. Both of these epithets are associated with Hekate, and of course, Artemis and Hekate are often confused in various sources.

The best known Basileia in the ancient world was Hera Basileia, who had a temple in Pergamon, where she was served by priestesses for extended periods of time based upon an inscription at the site. The polis also hosted a cultus to Meter Basileia, but little is known about the rites or stories of this deity, and She could be another aspect of Hera.

Athena Basileia is known in Athens. But we also know of Dike Basileia, Selene, Rhea, and other lesser known personifications, including the personification of Royalty itself.

In Mylasa, there is surviving inscription to Chthonia Basileia and Hekate Sossis, from the end of the 2nd century, BCE. Perhaps Chthonia Basileia is Persephone?

In Ephesus, on Mount Panayir, there were numerous altars, including one to Basileia, separate from the altar to Hekate.

Personally, I find myself drawn more to the fact that Basileia can indicate Queen, or palace, or domain, or nobility. That Hekate is a queen seems natural to me, but I am definitely biased in Her favor. Hekate has, in my personal life, encouraged me to take ownership of my own sovereignity. She seems big on encouraging people to take control, to act in service to their Higher Purpose, and to own the consequences of those choices. This is intrinsic in my thinking to Her role as a Crossroads Goddess, and a Liminal Being.

Hekate Basileia, You hold the Keys to the Whole Universe, You most Glorious Queen, with your torches shining bright, Upon the roads which we tread. Let our choices be true, Great Goddess.

Sources:

Lsj.translatum.gr http://www.hermeticfellowship.org/OrphicHymnHekate.html

Bilde, Per. Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks, Aarhus, 1997. Chaniotis, A., et al. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, vol. 52, Brill, 2002. Cook, A.B. Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, Vol.3, part 2, Cambridge, 2010. Eidinow, Esther and Julia Kindt. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, Oxford, 2015. Farnell, Lewis Richard. The Cults of the Greek States, Vol. 2, Clarendon, 1896. Fauth, Wolfgang. Hekate Polymorphos – Wesensvarianten einer antiken Gottheit, Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2006. Horster, Marietta and Anja Klockner, Cities and Priests: Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period, de Gruyter, 2014. Roller, Duane. “When is a queen truly a queen: the term basileia in Greek literature,” from the Society for Classical Studies, American Philological Association, article accessed 10/23/2017: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/149/abstract/when-queen-truly-queen-term-basileia-greek-literature

Images:

Tratoth, “Ruines antiuques d’Ephèse en Turquie,” photo, 2005. Via wikicommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ephesus35.jpg

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