All these poems, however, have long since perished. […] These too have disappeared, excepting a portion of those of Pindar. […] They must of course have regarded it as a portion of the Sea. […] This is surely not the order one might have anticipated. […] In this manner, supposing Artemis to have been an original moon-goddess, her epithet of Far-shooter (ἑκάτη) may have separated from her, and have become another moon-goddess, for such is the real character of Hecate ; or Hecate may have been the primitive name of the moon-goddess of one of the tribes of Greece.