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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Artemis

 
 
 
 
 
Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the fraternal sister of Apollo.  She was skilled with the arrow and bow and a Virgin Goddess.  She fell in love with the hunter, Orion, but he was killed by a wild boar.  She was a goddess of the hunt and of childbirth.  It is said she was "thrashed" by Hera as a child and crawled into Zeus' lap to be protected.  It is said she later had a daughter with Apollo named, Aradia.   Her Roman equivalent is Diana and her Nordic equivalent is Freyja.
 
 
 
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