Asalin gumakan Girkanci sau dayawa basa Girkanci 100%. Lamarin baiwar Allah ne Hecate, waɗanda tushensu ya koma ga ƙabilar Carian, a Asiya orarama. Koyaya, har wa yau Hecate ya zo a matsayin allahiya daga tsohuwar Girka.
Godiya ce ga waƙar Homeric ga Demeter da bayyanarta a cikin Hesiod's Theogony cewa ta zama allahiya ta kasancewarta mai girma wacce ke kulawa da samun mabiya da yawa, musamman a cikin Thrace. Babban mahimmin gidan ibadarsa shine a Lagina, ɗayan ɗayan biranen mulkin mallaka wanda ke kusa da Stratonicea, mulkin mallaka na ƙasar Makidoniya. Da allahiya Hecate Yana da barorin da barorinsa. Wani tsarkakakkun wurarensa yana cikin haikalin Artemis, a cikin Afisa, inda akwai kuma babani.
Hesiod ya ɗan faɗi game da rayuwar Hecate: 'yar Asteria ce, allahiya ta taurari kuma' yar'uwar Leto, uwa ga biyun Apollo da Artemis. Sabili da haka, Hecate dan uwan waɗannan gumakan ne kuma kaka ga thean uwan ba kowa bane face Phoebe, titan da ke wakiltar Wata. Alaka tsakanin Hecate kuma kakarta ta tabbatar cewa ita ma baiwar Allah ce. Labarin ya ci gaba da cewa yayin da al'adun gargajiyar Hecate suka bazu a cikin Girka, akwai matsaloli tunda wasu sun riga sun rufe matsayinta. allolin almara, Némenis ko Artemis, musamman.
A ƙarshe rawar da Hecate datana yanke hukunci kuma ta ƙare da zama kamar boka fiye da baiwar Allah. An bayyana ta a matsayin kyakkyawa, mai duhun kai mai ƙarfin sihiri, wanda baya jin tsoro. A halin yanzu tana ɗaya daga cikin allahiyar da waɗanda ke yin addinin bautar arna yawanci suke ɗauka.