One common misconception about Artemis is that she was the goddess of fertility. While she did eventually become associated with childbirth, her primary roles were that of the hunt, the moon, and chastity. She was not typically invoked for matters of fertility, as there were other goddesses, ...
Around the second century AD, early Gnostics (ancient Greek religious thinkers) used the word to describe their god. Abraxas is described as a talisman with a cock’s head, but a man’s body(2). The name has often been used in pop culture. One example is in the book and movie,Harry...
the sons of Hermes, who divided his love between two Nymphai (Nymphs); for one he visited the bed of Sose, the highland prophetess, and begat a son inspired with the divine voice of prophecy, Agreus (Hunter), well versed in the beast-slaying sport of the hunt; the other was Nomios...
When he had asked Opis for what she had borne, in order to devour it, Opis showed him a stone wrapped up like a baby; Saturnus devoured it. When he realized what he had done, he started to hunt for Jove throughout the earth. Juno, however, took Jove to the island of Crete, and...
Floral, bright, and subtly powerful, Gaia is a name with two separate origins. In Greek mythology, it is the name of the earth goddess and the universal mother, who takes her epithet from the Ancient Greek word for land or ground. It was this ecological element that led actress Emma Thom...
In the Greece mainland a simple curved bow is well represented on the central rib of the famous "Lion Hunt" dagger from the shaft-grave IV inMycenaedated fromLH ItoLH II(about 1550-1500 BC). Another interesting representation of a long simple curved bow (*2) is on the hunting scene of...
HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 1375diōgmós(from1377/diṓkō, "follow, pursue") – properly, pursuit (chase);persecution– literally, "thehuntto bring someone down like an animal," trying to suppress (punish) their convictions.See 1377(diōkō). ...
Description: Artemis, known as the goddess of the hunt, is also the goddess of the wilderness, archery, and the moon. She’s the twin sister of Apollo, and she loves staying in the forest, surrounded by the animals she loved. Athena Origin: Greek Meaning: Wise one Variations/Synonyms: ...
. . Orion since he used to hunt, and felt confident that he was most skilled of all in that pursuit, said even to Diana [Artemis] and Latona [Leto] that he was able to kill anything the produced. Terra (Earth) [Gaia], angered at this, sent the scorpion which is said to have ...
When he was killed in a lion hunt, the five we have mentioned, given over to continual lamentation, are said to have perished. Because they grieved exceedingly at his death, they are called Hyades. The remaining ten brooded over the death of their sisters, and brought death on themselves;...