Artemis was the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, and the goddess Leto. She was the twin sister of Apollo, the sun god.
Due to the jealousy of Hera (Zeus's wife), Leto was forced to wander and finally gave birth to Artemis on the island of Delos.
Artemis helped her mother deliver her younger brother, Apollo, immediately after her birth, earning her the title of goddess of childbirth and protector of newborns.
She was the mistress of the wild, forests, and hunting. She is often shown with a golden bow and arrows, accompanied by hunting dogs and riding a chariot pulled by golden-horned deer, symbolizing untamed nature.
Along with Athena and Hestia, Artemis was one of the three virgin goddesses, guarding the chastity of young maidens. Interestingly, she was also the goddess of childbirth.
Artemis valued freedom and independence, disliking the constraints of marriage. She protected young men and women who resisted love and marriage, defying Aphrodite.
She hunted in the woods of Arcadia with her band of nymphs. A hunter named Actaeon offended her (by seeing her bathe) and was turned into a stag; he was then torn apart by his hounds.
Before the Trojan War, the Greek leader Agamemnon killed one of her sacred deer and boasted about it. Artemis was furious and sent calm winds to trap the Greek fleet, preventing them from sailing. Because of this, she favored the Trojans during the war.
When Queen Niobe of Thebes boasted she had more children than Leto and insulted her, Artemis and Apollo punished Niobe by shooting all her children dead.
Artemis was close to a giant hunter named Orion. Her brother Apollo, wishing to protect Artemis's virginity (or out of jealousy), tricked her into shooting a distant speck on the sea (which was Orion's head). After his death, Orion became the constellation Orion, and his faithful dog became the constellation Canis Major, forever watching over him in the night sky.
Artemis stands as a goddess of power and paradox: she is both the guardian of maidenhood and the patron of childbirth; she embodies untamed wilderness and fierce independence, yet delivers swift and severe justice. Artemis, the eternal goddess of the hunt and the moon, remains an enduring symbol of nature's force and the cycle of life.
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