Artemis was born to Zeus and Leto. She is also the twin sister to Apollo. The goddess Artemis represented the Maiden aspect during the waxing moon. with her being the Mother aspect of the Triple goddess we know her influence over agricultural matters longevity, medicine, travel, visions during the new moon. She is known as the virgin huntress, goddess of wild places and wild things, the Huntress, Maiden, Bear Goddess, Moon Goddess, Hunter of Souls, shape-shifter. She had a temper so she was one that you wanted to stay on her good side. Her true love was said to be a mortal shepherd known as Endymion. It is said that she fell in love with him and asked Zeus to give him eternal sleep. During this sleep she came to him and produced 50 daughters who represent the 50 months elapsing between each Olympiad. She was …show more content…
Instead of running away he did not move he waited and watched her. Unfortunately for Actaeon when Artemis noticed him she splashed him with water from the pool and he was turned into a stag. In her anger Artemis called for his own hounds who then chased him and eventually tore Actaeon apart not knowing it was their Master that they pursued. There is also a story that Orion, who was a giant and a great hunter tried to rape Artemis and she killed him for that attempted betrayal of her chastity. Artemis was also said to be a Goddess who on occasion would demand a human sacrifice. One story states that Agamemnon shot a deer and then said that even Artemis could not have done better. To punish him she stopped the winds so that when He was preparing to attack Troy he had no wind to sail his ships. She was said to have decreed that the only way he would get the wind back was to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. Now it is said that Artemis substituted a deer at the last moment and took Iphigenia off to Tauris to train her as a