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ARTEMIS

Names: Artemis; Phoebe; Lat. Diana.

Epithets: Lady of the Beasts; Wild Huntress; Orthia (Straight-standing: Sparta).
In Roman periphery - Diana Meridiana (of the Midday), shooting hunters who meet her in the forest at noon.

Powers: Protects the childbirth and babies of the wild. In charge of the rites of passage of girl and boys. Partly fused with Selene (Moon) - Hecate - Eileithyia.

Attributes and symbols: Bow and arrows; deer/ bear. In Ephesus, she is a maternal virgin with many breasts.

Gifts to mortals: Protects chastity; wilderness; animal world. Cares of the young.

Origin: Daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin-sister of Apollo.

Loves: Virgin goddess. As Selene (Moon), had a crush on Endymion, put him to everlasting sleep on the top of mount Latmos and every evening gives him a good-night kiss.

Spouse: --- (Virgin) In some sources, Hippolytus is revived under the name of Virbius as her ritual consort (rex nemorensis) in Aricia, Italy.

Children: --- (Virgin; although the multiple breasts of the Ephesian Artemis reveal her universally-maternal nature. Her Brauronian cult is concerned with childbirth.)

Chosen people/ places: Deep woods. Temple in Ephesus - one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. The cult of Brauron, Attica; the famous sanctuary in Aricia, near Rome, with the rex nemorensis - the "king of the grove', a fugitive slave, the sacrificial consort of her sacred tree.

Pageant: Hunting nymphs; deer; bear; wild boar; moonlight.

Allies/ favorites: Apollo; nymphs; Callisto; Procris & Cephalus; Orion; Hippolytus; Iphigenia (saved from the altar, taken to Tauris as the high priestess of her local cult with human sacrifices; later returned to Brauron, Attica, to establish the temple where the clothes of women who had died in childbirth were dedicated to Artemis.)

Adversaries: Hera (mistreats her); Aphrodite (destroys her favorite Hippolytus).

Victims: Actaeon (torn by his dogs as a deer); Iphigenia (sacrificed on her altar); children of Niobe; Procris & Cephalus; Orion, et al.

Notes: Athenian girls about 5-10 years of age had to perform the Bear Dances (Brauronian rites) to Artemis Brauronia, which allowed their subsequent marriage. Spartan youths were ritually scourged before the altar of Artemis Orthia.
The dance of Greek comedy - kordax - begins in the cult of Artemis.

Names:	Artemis; Phoebe; Lat. Diana.
Epithets:	Lady of the Beasts; Wild Huntress; Orthia (Straight-standing: Sparta). In Roman periphery - Diana Meridiana (of the Midday), shooting hunters who meet her in the forest at noon.
Powers:	Protects the childbirth and babies of the wild. In charge of the rites of passage of girl and boys. Partly fused with Selene (Moon) - Hecate - Eileithyia.
Attributes and symbols:	Bow and arrows; deer/ bear. In Ephesus, she is a maternal virgin with many breasts.
Gifts to mortals:	Protects chastity; wilderness; animal world. Cares of the young.
Origin:	Daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin-sister of Apollo.
Loves:	Virgin goddess. As Selene (Moon), had a crush on Endymion, put him to everlasting sleep on the top of mount Latmos and every evening gives him a good-night kiss.
Spouse:	--- (Virgin) In some sources, Hippolytus is revived under the name of Virbius as her ritual consort (rex nemorensis) in Aricia, Italy.
Children:	--- (Virgin; although the multiple breasts of the Ephesian Artemis reveal her universally-maternal nature. Her Brauronian cult is concerned with childbirth.)
Chosen people/ places:	Deep woods. Temple in Ephesus - one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. The cult of Brauron, Attica; the famous sanctuary in Aricia, near Rome, with the rex nemorensis - the "king of the grove', a fugitive slave, the sacrificial consort of her sacred tree.
Pageant:	Hunting nymphs; deer; bear; wild boar; moonlight.
Allies/ favorites:	Apollo; nymphs; Callisto; Procris & Cephalus; Orion; Hippolytus; Iphigenia (saved from the altar, taken to Tauris as the high priestess of her local cult with human sacrifices; later returned to Brauron, Attica, to establish the temple where the clothes of women who had died in childbirth were dedicated to Artemis.)
Adversaries:	Hera (mistreats her); Aphrodite (destroys her favorite Hippolytus).
Victims:	Actaeon (torn by his dogs as a deer); Iphigenia (sacrificed on her altar); children of Niobe; Procris & Cephalus; Orion, et al.
Notes:	Athenian girls about 5-10 years of age had to perform the Bear Dances (Brauronian rites) to Artemis Brauronia, which allowed their subsequent marriage. Spartan youths were ritually scourged before the altar of Artemis Orthia. The dance of Greek comedy - kordax - begins in the cult of Artemis.