This will be a follow-up to this previous post.
I have never talked about this before, but the version of Goddess Hekate I worship is syncretic in more ways than one. She is inside the soil of North America, I feel Her so clearly as the land goddess of North America. And since I was born in the United States, Hekate is my "land mother", as if I had been birthed out of Her own womb.
At first I wondered if She was the conventional American Triple Goddess: Lady Justice, Lady Liberty and Columbia. She gave me a yes to the first two (especially the Statue of Liberty, that statue is deeply holy to me now), but a big, huge FUCK NO to the third.
And that took a while for me to understand. I knew Columbia, the figurehead of the American Revolution, was named after the genocidal colonizer and rapist Christopher Columbus, but I didn't understand the extent to which Columbia herself was energetically an imposter spirit, a fraud goddess.
It has taken years of spiritual work, and grappling with the shock of the abuse, torture and horror of what has been happening to me, to decolonize and purify my mind of deeply held conditioning. And in this process, the imposter spirit Columbia has melted away.
The face underneath, the third face of the American Triple Goddess, is hidden in the shadow and remains nameless (in true Hekatean fashion). But at this point I'm very certain that She is the face of an indigenous goddess - either of the North American mainland or of the Caribbean.
Hekate's ancient energy seems to have become syncretized with an ancient indigenous earth goddess. I don't know Her name and frankly, I don't think I would be the right person to name Her. She's very likely of the same archetype, at least, as the Haudenosaunee’s Sky Woman, or the Hopi’s Spider Grandmother, or the Lakota’s White Buffalo Calf Woman.
She is likely very ancient, and She would have been active in the ancient Native American cultures that existed around the same time as ancient Egypt, ancient Sumer, ancient Greece, and ancient India (the Harappans whose historical record is most visible in the Indus Valley area).
In other words, She was active in the Americas when Hekate was active in the ancient Hellenic world.
Who She really is, this third face of Hekate, is none of my business because I'm not Native American, but I know that She is the stolen goddess buried beneath Columbia’s marble feet. She is the face under Columbia's mask.
She is wild, cyclical, bloody, alive. Nothing like stoic, performative Columbia.
Her real name is likely forgotten, but She naturally has the qualities, powers, and dark ferocity that basically make Her an indigenous sister of Goddess Hekate - probably why this formation of the American Triple Goddess happened, I guess.
Unlike the illusion of Columbia, a misdirect that can only ever lead you to false sovereignty, the American Triple Goddess is the living frequency of Total Liberty. She is empowered by all of the values (justice, freedom, progress, destiny, etc) that Columbia pretends to represent.
Getting past the powerful illusion of Columbia has actually been VERY hard.
Right from the beginning, years ago when Hekate first came to me, She showed me that Columbia was an illusion, but it has taken years of inner work to actually wake up from the hypnosis. If you psychically connect to Columbia (or just the American egregore in general), you'll see why. Columbia's energy is STRONG and really fucking hypnotic.
She looks like liberty, but actually she is the spiritual inversion of indigenous sovereignty.
Remember: Hekate (that's the name by which I know the American Triple Goddess, at least - but She is really the Nameless Empress) is the land mother of North America.
But Columbia is not born from this land, she is projected onto it. She is an overlay, an illusion meant to overwrite the memory of the land spirits she replaced.
Columbia's mask is projected over ancient North American land frequencies to capture and reroute their power. Not only does that complete the erasure of Native spirituality, but it also siphons and hoards all of that energy for a conqueror's purposes. And because Columbia looks like an empowered "feminist" figure, she lets the colonizer virtue signal and she makes genocide look like divine order.
Columbia is so deeply embedded in the collective unconscious that she only began to loosen her grip on my psyche after...a lot of inner work. I mean a lot of inner work. Columbia is a hypnotic spell, she is an extremely clingy hungry ghost. I think you could even call her an archetypal sigil.
Behind the powerful hypnosis of Columbia is a sort of wasteland of grief and collective amnesia. The conquest of this land was also a conquest of memory.
Columbia has been very useful for the current national egregore because she disguises the fracture at the core of American identity...and I think everyone can see that this core fracture has become more and more visible these days.
But beyond Columbia is She-Who-Remembers, the hidden face of the hidden Goddess. An extremely ancient aspect of primordial Hekate.
When we remember Her, the original freedom current, the original Goddess of this soil, the hypnotic spell ends. We can then be fed and nourished by the very soul of this continent.