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4 Most Powerful Sorcerers Of Greek Mythology: Hecate (Hekate) - goddess of witchcraft & necromancy; Circe - goddess of magic; Pasiphae - witch queen of Crete; Medea - Princess of Colchis & Priestess of Hecate.


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00:00Music
00:09Aste hei thu miram faron
00:12Yei the awe that modise ye ois
00:17Hei nubind on the hei o
00:21On wendi yala
00:25Deogneit, kivmeisith
00:28That ikmeisith
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00:43Yegadra anahere
00:45Fram this sebune
00:48On teore blonte
00:51Swa de te nu abuye
00:54Ont lu swelte not
00:57Ac libe a
00:58On etchis
01:02Yehera me
01:04Mwagnit awak
01:06Be a stranga
01:09At steakra
01:10Fobreg thawani
01:12Mw pares areng
01:31From the time far gone
01:33The practices of witchcraft, sorcery and necromancy
01:37Have been dreaded as the dark ways
01:39The dark arts
01:41A path
01:42Only a few
01:43Dare to follow
01:44And even fewer
01:45Excelled
01:46In the greek myths
01:49There were four figures
01:50Whose skills and mastery in these arts
01:53Earned them great reverence
01:54Whose vast knowledge
01:56And power of the dark ways
01:58Caused great fear in the lands
02:011. Hecate
02:03Also called Haygate
02:05Queen of the night
02:07The one before the gate
02:08Hecate was the goddess of witchcraft
02:11Magic
02:12Necromancy
02:13Crossroads
02:14Creatures of the night
02:15And the moon
02:16A goddess capable of both good and evil
02:19She was the only child of Perseus
02:21Titan of destruction
02:23And Asteria
02:24Titan of the stars
02:25And granddaughter to the elder titans
02:28Koios and Phoebe
02:30When invoked for sexual crimes against women
02:33Hecate answered
02:34When justice failed to come from all other sources
02:38Hecate came forth
02:39She produced healing
02:41When all solutions had failed
02:43She banished ghosts
02:45Or manifested them
02:46She protected dogs
02:48And against dogs
02:49She restored the fertility of female children
02:52And granted swift and painless death
02:55Hecate was a powerful shapeshifter
02:58Who could take on any form
02:59From a black dog
03:01To a full grown woman
03:02From a tiny cat
03:04To a huge dragon
03:05From an ugly tattered old crone
03:07To a beautiful flawless young lady
03:09As the guardian of crossroads
03:12Hecate is usually represented
03:14As having three faces
03:15And carrying a torch
03:17To show her association with the dark knights
03:19Or holding a skeleton key
03:22That unlocks the gates of all realms
03:24Also strongly associated with hounds
03:27She was always accompanied by them
03:30She was the three headed goddess of the moon
03:32Who could grant any wish
03:34A companion to the furies
03:35Spirits of vengeance
03:37And the mother of the empersi
03:38Female demons of seduction
03:422. Circe
03:44Well versed in the arts of herbs
03:46Potions
03:47Spells
03:48And incantations
03:50Circe was the powerful enchantress
03:52Daughter of the god
03:53Helios
03:54And the nymph
03:54Perse
03:55And the sister to Parsephi
03:57Queen of Crete
03:58And Aetis
03:59Keeper of the golden fleece
04:01Although the beautiful sorceress
04:03Used her powers for healing
04:05And purification
04:06She had one peculiar habit
04:08Circe enjoyed turning people into animals
04:11She turned Odysseus men into pigs
04:14When they came upon her island
04:16If it wasn't for the herb
04:18Given to Odysseus
04:19By Hermes
04:20The king of Ithaca
04:21Would have equally fallen victim
04:23To her spells
04:25However
04:26He became her lover
04:27And had three children with her
04:29It is said
04:31That Circe possessed the power
04:33To hide the sun
04:33And the moon
04:34If she willed
04:36She was attended to
04:38By nymphs
04:39And when in need of guidance
04:40Or spiritual assistance
04:42She invoked the presence of dark deities
04:45Like Chaos
04:45Nyx
04:46And Hecate
04:48The mansion she lived in
04:50Was surrounded by lions
04:51Tigers
04:53And wolves
04:53But these animals
04:55Were all harmless
04:56Now why was that?
04:58Because they were once men
05:00They were victims of her magic
05:033. Parsephi
05:06Parsephi was the queen of Crete
05:08The daughter to Helios
05:10And Perse
05:11The sister to Circe
05:12And Aetis
05:13The wife to the Cretan king
05:15Minos
05:16And the mother of the Minotaur
05:19She was an ardent practitioner
05:21Of black magic
05:22And witchcraft
05:23And like Circe
05:24She had great knowledge
05:25Of magical herbs
05:26Spells
05:27And concoctions
05:29When she discovered
05:31That her husband
05:31The king
05:32Was unfaithful to her
05:34Sleeping with other women
05:35And having other children
05:37Parsephi cast a powerful spell on him
05:40That if he slept with any other woman
05:42Aside her
05:42He would ejaculate snakes
05:44Worms
05:45And scorpions
05:46Instead of semen
05:47And that was it
05:49She then had the king
05:50All to herself
05:534. Medea
05:55Medea was a Colchene princess
05:57And a devoted priestess of Hecate
05:59She was the daughter of king Aetis of Clochis
06:03And the oceanid
06:04This made her the granddaughter of Helios
06:07And the niece to Circe and Parsephi
06:10Being closely related to two powerful witches
06:13Sorcery indeed ran in her blood
06:16And her skills
06:17Were almost equal to those of her aunts
06:19Medea married Jason
06:21The leader of the Argonauts
06:23Greatly aiding him on his quest for the golden fleece
06:26King Aetis was bent on keeping the fleece
06:29In his kingdom
06:30And so he sent Jason on a number of deadly tasks
06:33To make him fail
06:35But in each of these tasks
06:37Medea was there to help her husband
06:39And to ensure his success
06:42When Jason encountered the great Sparty warriors
06:45Born from the dragon's teeth
06:47Sewn by Cadmus
06:48It was Medea
06:49Who showed him how to turn the warriors against each other
06:52Medea protected him from the fire-breathing bulls of Aetis
06:56And put the Colchian dragon to deep sleep
06:59Making sure Jason safely retrieved the fleece from the dragon's nest
07:03She went further to murder her half-brother
07:06Aspertus
07:07So the Argonauts could sail away
07:10Were it not for her help
07:12The Argonauts would never have succeeded on their mission
07:16However
07:17After the quest
07:18When Jason betrayed her
07:20For another woman
07:21Medea became dark
07:22And vengeful
07:23She killed her husband's newfound lover
07:26By gifting her a garment
07:28Laced with her deadly potions
07:30Then she killed her own children
07:32The children
07:33Conceived with Jason
07:36Medea later returned to her homeland
07:38Where she used her powers
07:40To eliminate her father's usurpers
07:42Reinstating him as king
07:44Once again
07:45These
07:46Are the four greatest sorcerers
07:48In all of Greek myths
07:56For more than ever
07:57Who will you?
08:16To eliminate her

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