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The great goddess Artemis Artemis the goddess of the hunt and the wild and protector of the vulnerable

The setting takes place in ancient Greece where gods and goddess lived. ApollIn Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto. Artemis has a twin brother named Apollo. In later times, Artemis was combined with the Roman goddess Diana and in Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume. Deer and Cyrpress are scared to her.

Artemis was worshipped almost everywhere in the Hellenic world. She is the goddess of the hunt and the wild; she gradually displaced Selene as the goddess of the moon. Her best known cults were in her birthplace, the island of Delos; in Baruron; Mounikhia(located on a hill near the port Piraeus); and in Sparta. Artemis is usually pictured in statues or paintings with deer, bow and arrows, in a forest setting.

In Ionia the "Lady of Ephesus", a goddess whom Hellens identified with Artemis, was a principal deity. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (located in western part of Turkey), one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was probably the best known center of her worship apart from Delos. In Acts of the Apostles, the Ephesian metalsmiths who feels threatened by Paul's preaching of the new faith, jealously riot in her defense, shouting "Great is Artemis of Ephesians!"

Athenian festivals in honor of Artemis included Elaphebolia, Mounikhia, Khansteria, Brauronia; the festival of Artemis Orthia was observed in Sparta.

Young Athenian girls between the ages of five and ten were sent to the sanctuary of Artemis at Baruron to serve the Goddess for one year. During this time the girls were known as arktoi, or little she-bears. A myth explaining this servitude relates that a bear formed the habit of regularly visting the town of Brauron, and the peoplethere fed it, so that over time the bear became tame. A young girl teased the bear, and, in some versions of the myth it killed her, while in other versions it clawed her eyes out. Either way, the girl's brothers killed the bear, and Artemis was enraged. She demanded that young girls "act the bear" at her sanctuary in aton ement for the bears death.

Virginal Artemis was worshipped as a fertilly/childbirth goddess in some places since, according to some myths, she assisted her mother in delivery of her twin. During the Classical period in Athens, she was identifyed with Hecate. Artemis also assimilated Caryatis (Carya) and Ilithyia.

This is a picture of Artemis with bow and arrows and a deer and earlier I said she is pictured or a statue with bow and arrows and with a deer.