Artemis
Greek · deity · primordial · deity
Greek goddess of the wild hunt, virginity, childbirth-protection (paradox resolved by her midwifery role at Apollo's birth on Delos). Twin sister of Apollo. Major cult sites at Ephesus (the Artemision, one of the Seven Wonders), Brauron (Arkteia bear-rite), Sparta (Orthia flogging-altar). The Ephesian Artemis with her distinctive cult-image is iconographically and theologically distinct from mainland Greek Artemis — a syncretized form with Anatolian mother-goddess elements.
Parentage
Domains
- wild hunt
- virginity
- childbirth
Powers
- Send swift, painless (or sudden) death
- Transform mortals as punishment
Epithets
- Ἀγροτέρα
- ἰοχέαιρα
- Ὀρθία
- Ποτνία Θηρῶν
- Λοχία
- Ἐφεσία
- χρυσηλάκατος
- κελαδεινή
- Ταυροπόλος
- Βραυρωνία
Relations
- sibling: Hebe
- sibling: Ares
- sibling: Aeacus
- sibling: Athena
- sibling: Dionysus
- sibling: Hermes
- equated with: Diana
- killer of: Tityus
- sibling: Apollo
- interpretatio: Diana
- interpretatio: Bastet
- interpretatio: Bendis the Two-Speared Huntress
- equated with: Artimus
- equated with: Ertemi
- interpretatio: Aredvi Sura Anahita