Artemis-Diana


 * // [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:s6nmMrdg3T4-xM:http://homepage.mac.com/joebergeron/webpageimages/artemis.jpg width="174" height="220" caption="See full size image" link="http://homepage.mac.com/joebergeron/webpageimages/artemis.jpg"]]The roman name of this deity is Diana and it's greek name is artemis. It's symbols are the cresent moon,bow and arrow, sandals, clouds, three pillars, and blue sky. It is the patron/ defender of singers, young girls and women, women's fertility, sports, sailors, priestesses who taught sexual mysteries. //****// The virgin goddess of the moon and of hunting. Artemis was Leto's daughter and the twin sister of Apollo. Although honored as a patron of motherhood, Artemis was proud of her purity. Poor Actaeon was out hunting when he came upon Artemis bathing in a stream and stopped to look, for which she had him changed to a stag and torn into pieces by his own hunting dogs. Artemis was, however, fond of the mighty hunter Orion, to the point where her jealous brother tricked her into killing Orion, whom she then placed among the stars. Orion had earlier been promised Merope in marriage if he cleared Chios of wild beasts. When her father reneged, Orion raped her (or tried to), for which her father had him blinded, though his sight was later restored by the gods. //**

** By: Nicole Allen && Jessica Pickens ;) **