She was conservatively seen as a huntress, armed with her bow and accompanied by her container of hounds. Even if numerous modern pagans, practically strictly, are vile to hunting loutish plants for regeneration, the fabrication of the huntress can be doable to numerous bits and pieces such as pursuing a object of ridicule or tracking down some abstracted point of view of covet.
As well as being the client of loutish creatures, she is moreover tied with lavishness, the moon, healing, protection and adversary. For numerous witches these days she is a powerful symbol for secede and badly behaved women. I moreover see her as the goddess of photographers - incredibly when I am in to likeness wildlife. The skills popular to lease some abstracted loutish creature in a likeness are, at the rear all, intense the fantastically as colonize popular by a hunter - or huntswoman.
In a address at Witchfest in 2005, pagan sty Sorita D'Este said:
"Artemis is a goddess of numerous bits and pieces, she is a virgin goddess who is moreover a goddess of women and of lavishness, in ancient Greece she was viewed as the goddess of song and horse around, a goddess of water who theoretical the first name of Peer of the realm of the Swimming pool, she was a goddess of the sun and of the moon, of day and of night, seen and depicted as a warrior goddess by the Amazons and interacted on numerous levels with all the other gods and mortals in the compound myths and sagas."Sorita D'este has on paper an mild book about Artemis, called Artemis: Virgin Holy being of the Sun and Moon. It is vacuous from Amazon, priced lb12.99
I approved to selection Artemis as my goddess of the week seeing that she is one of the numerous goddesses tied with hares, which I wrote about on A Bad Witch's Blog yesterday.
In one heading, settlers at Baiai, in Italy, at home to know the best place to build. They consulted the soothsayer, who told them the goddess would send a sign. Adjacent at this time, a hare
appeared. They followed it until it went to domain by a myrtle tree - which is where they built a temple to Artemis. In unlike story, Artemis was so severe when a group of Greek sailors killed a hare that she sluggish them on their start to the Trojan war.
The picture at the top tweak shows a outer space hare pendant, which is vacuous from online pagan salesperson Pagan Legendary for lb9.99. Pagan Legendary moreover sells a translucent pendant depicting Diana the huntress - the Roman be equal with of Artemis - for lb6.99.
Links:
Artemis: Virgin Holy being of the Sun and Moon
http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/greek goddess artemis.htm
http://pagan-magic.co.uk/shop/greenwood-celestial-hare-pendant-p-8638.html?ad=badwitch
http://pagan-magic.co.uk/shop/earthsea-charm-diana-p-7799.html?ad=badwitch
