Blessing:
Artemis' blessings are wildness, self-reliance, physical prowess, cunning, skill, and closeness to nature. She protects the innocent, especially the wild creatures of the forest, but also pregnant women, children, and those who are just. She punishes wrong-doers, especially those who offend the Gods through hubris or unremitting pride.
Epithets:
Agreia (Hunteress), Agrotera (of the Wilderness), Arktos (the Bear), Cedreatis (Cedar), Daphnaia (of the Bay Laurel), Delia (of Delos), Eukleia (Glorious), Hegemone (She Who Leads), Karytis, Keladeine (Sounding [of the chase]), Koruthalia (Laurel-Maiden), Kynthia, Laphria (of the Hunt), Leukophruene (White-Browed), Limnatis (of the Marshes), Lokhia (Protector in Childbirth), Lygodesma (Willow), Megale (Great), Ortheia (the Upright), Parthenos (the Virgin), Phoebe (Shining), Phosphoros (Lightbringer), Potnia Theron (Mistress of the Animals), Puronia (Fiery), Sosipolis (Savior of the City), Soteira (Savior), Tauropolos (Bull-Hunter)
Symbols:
bow, moon, deer
Animal(s):
all wild creatures, but especially deer, bears, boars and the female of the species
Sacrifices:
moonstone, pearl, crystal, damiana, almond, mugwort, hazel, frankincense, jasmine, ginseng, camphor, aloe, menstrual blood
Primary Cult Center(s):
Delos, Magnesia, Pamphylia, Pergemon, Ephesus
Festivals:
Apaturia: 3 days in Puanepsion (October-November)
Brauronia: (date unknown)
Elaphebolia: 6 Elaphebolion (March-April)
Kharisteria: 6 Boedromion (September-October)
Mounikhia: 16 Mounikhion (April-May)
6th day of the month
Ways to honor:
The best way to honor Artemis is to care for the natural world. Clean up pollution, protect wildlife, donate time and money to ecological concerns. But don't just do it from your safe cities: actually get out into the wild, and experience the natural world. Go on nature walks, go for picnics, camp, hunt - but get outside! If you eat meat, respect the animal that it came from. Hunt, if you can. Be mindful of what the animal went through, and the intimate connection that exists between its death and your life, even if you can't. Be respectful of personal space, privacy, and of women-only spaces. Support pregnant women, children's rights, and women's sports.
For more information:
Acts 19:28
Apollodorus' Library 1.4.2-5, 1.6.2, 1.7.4-5, 1.9.16, 2.5.4, 3.14.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.7, 3.9.1
Euripides' Hippolytus
Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis 1089
Hesiod's Theogony 920
Homer's Iliad 6.4.14, 9.533-536, 20.30-39, 20.70-71, 21.468-513, 24.605-607
Homer's Odyessey 15.475, 20.60
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 5.1
Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3a.1
Homeric Hymn to Artemis 9, 27
Hyginus' Fabulae 9, 28, 53, 98, 122, 150, 189, 195, 200
Hyginus' Poetica Astronomica 2.1, 2.7, 2.16, 2.18, 2.26, 2.34
Ovid's Metamorphoses 3.138-252, 2.401-530, 5.330, 6.204-312, 8.271-283, 11.321-327, 12.27-38, 15.487-551
Papyri Graeci Magicae 7.686-702
Pausanias' Description of Greece 2.7.7-8, 2.26.6, 3.18.15, 8.27.17, 8.53.1-3, 9.19.1, 9.19.7
Pindar's Olympian Odes 3.25-30
Pindar's Pythian Odes 3.31-37, 4.90-92
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