Worship of the ancient mother goddess Artemis was forbidden and the Temple of Artemis was destroyed by a Christian mob, the ruins used as a quarry for building materials for other local projects such as churches. The streets, once adorned with statuary, highly maintained and lighted by the oil...
The Ephesus Museumis in the town of Selcuk at the eastern foothill of Ayasuluk Hill. The two best finds exhibited in the museum are the marble statues of Artemis. One is from the 1C AD and the other 2C AD. Rows of egg-shaped marble pieces on the goddess’s chest have been interpret...
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However, the goddess worshiped here was much more of theWest Asian Mother Goddessthan the Greek Artemis (or the equivalent Roman Diana). See the page describinga walk from Selçuk to Ephesusfor more on the remaining signs of mother goddess worship in the area. The Greeks assimilated foreign ...
The article presents arguments on the illumination of the historical circumstances that surrounded Artemis worship in Ephesus to the purpose of Luke for including it in his history of the early church. It presents a description of the history of Artemis in Ephesus including factors that relate to ...
Artemis did not mind adolescent girls, who were under her protection, marrying, but they had to sacrifice all their childhood mementos to her when they did so. Artemis was actually worshiped in some places as a fertility goddess. The temple of Artemis was dedicated to this aspect of her. ...
The goddess "whom all Asia and the world worships" (Acts 19:27; cf. Paus. 4.31.8) was honored among Greeks and barbarians alike, said the Ephesians, for her manifest miracles (I.Ephesos la 24.C.9-14). Her temple stands outside the city proper, and it was the temple, not the ci...
The Temple of Artemis is also known as the Temple of Diana. Artemis was an Olympian God, the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was the goddess of the moon, and the goddess of the hunt. She was also the twin sister of Apollo.
27 Not only is there danger that this trade of ours will be discredited, but also that the [magnificent] [g]temple of the great goddess [h]Artemis will be discredited, and that she whom all Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned and lose her glorious magnificence.”28...
Being the centre of the cult for 1,000 years, Artemis was worshiped by the Spring Procession, now known as Easter. "A deep impression was made on those present when the Temple Goddess thus expressed her joy in all things growing, springing, sprouting in the far-spread ether of the world...