Hekate Pagan
Hekate or Hecate? Who are they?
From the 1970’s: Who are they? Spanish? Mexicans? Italians? Pagans? Romani?
I grew up in a neighborhood in Arcadia California called Mayflower Village. Some of the neighbors spoke a Spanish called Caló. Because of the man who said he was my father or maybe somebody else we were called the Califs. So according to the Spanish Americans I knew, where I lived was roughly called Mayflower Village or Mayflower Varrio not a barrio — a varrio. Some people called the language they used Caló but it was older than that. According to a online dictionary: “Caló a language used by Chicanos or Mexican-Americans, derived from the name of the Spanish Gypsy (gitano) dialect, Caló.” (1) There were Romani, Sinti and Kalderash from multiple countries that lived near us so in their worldview it was a varrio and our world had almost nothing to do with local Mexican American culture. Sounds weird but it’s true.
