| Summary: | This paper analyzes the connection between the goddess Hecate and passageways, by checking the literary evidence, which documents a series of rituals performed in her honor at crossroads. This goddess is also often placed by the entrance of the houses : she is an apotropaic deity, which protects the inside from the dangerous influences that come from the outside. By examining the rituals performed in her honor, it explores the relationship between the humans, the goddess, and the “non-places”, demonstrating that those rituals did not create a sacred bond, but rather some sort of “non-bond” between the goddess and the mortals, “linking them without any link”, so to speak.
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