ARTEMIS

DUTIES:

• Hunting, wilderness, wild animals
• Childbirth, protectress of girls up to the age of marriage,
• nursing infants, maiden dance and song, disease, plague, and sudden death
• Lakes, marshes, hunting bows, spears and nets, hunting dogs,
• animal pelts and skins, and animal rabies

POWER:

• Grants strength and health
• Can bring sudden death and illness with her quivers
• Protects young girls and women
• Can cure and alleviate pain of mortals

FAMILY:

• Daugter of Zeus and Leto
• Marital Status: Virgin
• Sibblings: Apollo (twin brother)

Strengths:

• Independence
• courage
• confidence
• physical strength
• Immune to Aphrodite's love powers

WEAKNESS:

• Anger Issues
• Impulsive
• Vengeful
• Dislikes males because they can distract her better judgement

SYMBOLS:

• Bow and quivers
• Moon
• Deer

Myth of Artemis & the Gigante Orion

Artemis loved the giant Orion and came near marrying him. Apollo took this hard scolding her did nothing. So when Apollo saw the head of Orion who was swimming a long way off, he challenged Artemis that she couldn't hit with her arrows the black object in the sea. Since she was an expert, she shot an arrow and pierced the head of Orion. Artemis was very sad and to honor him put him among the constellations.

Artemis & the Gigantes Aloadai

When the Aloadai Giants were nine they wanted to fight the gods. They set Mount Ossa on top of Mount Olympos, and then placed Mount Pelion on top of Ossa, threatening to climb up the mountains to the sky. Ephialtes paid a lot of attention to Hera, as did Otos to Artemis. Artemis finished off the Aloadai in Naxos by means of a trick: she acted in the likeness of a deer and darted between them, and in their desire to hit the animal they speared each other. That is what happens when you challenge the gods.

The End

sources:
www.theoi.com/Olympios/Artemis.html

www.theoi.com/Summary/Artemis.html

www.slideshare.net/mobile/anwa0848/artemis-greek-mythology

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