"Hello. Be welcome. I am Asmina, a servant of the Lady. I come to this garden often to meditate. Be welcome in this place."

(Ask the Priestess about the Statues)

"Shall I tell you of these statues? The first is of the God Hades and Persephone. It is said that He spied Her from his kingdom in the Underworld and stole Her away to be His bride and Queen. None save our Lady Hecate heard Her cries of distress, and it was She who revealed to the Maid's mother Demeter what had transpired. Persephone was found because of this, but She did not fully escape Her bondage. During Her time in the land of the dead She had eaten of a pomegranate, and thus She was compelled to spend half of every year reigning with Hades as the Queen of the Underworld. Our Lady became Her handmaiden and companion."

"The second statue is of Empedoceles. An Initiate of Hecate, he understood the nature of the elements and codified the four elements that we know of and use in our rituals today: earth, air, fire and water. A mystic, a poet and a defender of Greek democracy, he was also a great and learned magician who was said to have raised the dead."

"And the third statue is of Medea, a priestess of Hecate. Most know her as the lover of Jason, who was betrayed by him. A great play written by Euripides accused her of slaying her children in revenge for this. But older versions of her tale tell another story-that she was abandoned in Corinth by Jason, then forced to flee from that place. Those tales lay the blame squarely on the King of Corinth himself. And some, like myself, believe that the story that the world came to know so well was changed by the playwright in exchange for a bribe of five Attic talents by the Corinthians who did not wish the blame to be placed upon their heads. Given the slanders my Lady has suffered Herself through the centuries, it would certainly seem to be more the truth. To me, Medea is a woman twice wronged, first by her lover, then by history, but I leave you to come to your own judgment of her. As for Jason, he was eventually struck blind and wandered the world alone, until one day he stopped to rest under what turned out to be the ruined prow of his old ship, the Argo. It fell upon him, killing him instantly. Justice it seems, found him in the end. Medea's end was much different than his. She escaped her enemies on a chariot sent by Helios, or some say by Hecate herself and lives on as an immortal."

(Ask the Priestess about herself and her people)

"My people roamed the deserts of the Sudan. We came to know Hecate and the Gods of Greece from our trade with the Greek and Roman colonies on the northern coast. There, they raised a temple to Hecate and Persephone-Cyrene in what is now Libya. Some of us, like myself adopted Greek ways and came to serve our Lady."

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