Seeing that it took days and nights for her brother's birth, Artemis was so affected by this that she swore to be a virgin goddess and that she didn't like men after that. She instead decided to form a group of female hunters who share her view.
Artemis does not wish to be married so she will never experience heartbreak and so she can enjoy the thrill of hunting, fighting for survival, the beauty of nature: the water, the plants, the animals, the mountains, the forests, the moon and the weather.
Much like Athena and Hestia, Artemis preferred to remain a maiden goddess and was sworn never to marry, so was one of the three Greek virgin goddesses, over whom the goddess of love and lust, Aphrodite, had no power whatsoever.
At a young age, she made a vow that she would keep her maidenhood forever. So, like Athena and Hestia before her, she remained chaste for eternity, guarding her vow even more passionately than her predecessors.
On the coins minted at Ephesus, the goddess wears a mural crown (like a city's walls), an attribute of Cybele as a protector of cities (see polos). The traditional interpretation of the oval objects covering the upper part of the Ephesian Artemis is that they represent multiple breasts, symbolizing her fertility.
Callisto, in Greek mythology, a nymph, or else a daughter of either Lycaon of Arcadia or of Nycteus or Ceteus. Callisto was one of the goddess Artemis' huntress companions and swore to remain unwed.
Not only does blessing mention breasts as part of its blessing, but also the title for God given here, Shaddai can be translated as God of the mountains, or equally, as God of the breasts.
Artemis was the Greek goddess of hunting, wild animals, the moon, chastity and, most interestingly, girlhood. She was a protector for women and girls, and had a key role in childbirth and disease.
An Artemis woman has a strong urge to follow her own intuition. She is brave and wild and represents the independent woman who does what she believes in, no matter how those around her (society!) react to her behaviour.
Artemis was a virgin goddess, and she was accompanied by nymphs, who also were expected to remain virgins. If any of these nymphs slipped up and lost their virginity, Artemis treated them very harshly. One such attendant was Callisto, whom Zeus raped.
One of the reasons she became a virgin was to avoid having a fate similar to her mother, Metis. Even though she is a virgin goddess, Athena has demigod children, who are born from her own thoughts combined with the thoughts of mortal men she loves. These children are "gifts" to the men she favors.
Full of anguish and regret, the goddess took Orion's body using her silver moon chariot and placed her lover in the sky as a tribute to her friend who bears the same name, the Orion constellation. The story of the tragedy between them spread across Crete.
Artemis was the goddess of chastity, hunting, and the moon, often depicted with her trusty bow and arrow and a short tunic to aid in running through the woods. Her maidenly virtue—for she swore never to marry—was presented in counterpoint to the passionate and fiery Aphrodite.
If a maiden wants to become a Hunter, she must say the words of the oath. Once Artemis agrees to that oath, it is binding and the Hunter must live by it for the rest of their days. If a Hunter falls in love, Artemis will remove their immortality and may turn them into an animal, depending on her discretion.
In Greek mythology, Artemis is the virgin goddess, so named because she has never had carnal relations with anyone and has never had a husband.
They are eternally young unless they break their oath. If a Hunter falls in love, Artemis will remove their "immortality" as falling in love would break their oath to Artemis.
Artemis' appearance: Usually, an eternally young woman, beautiful and vigorous, wearing a short costume that leaves her legs free. At Ephesus, Artemis wears a controversial costume that may represent many breasts, fruits, honeycombs, or parts of sacrificed animals.
In Artemis the Brave, Artemis has her first crush, on Orion, but later realizes that he only cares about himself. In The Girl Games, Actaeon kisses her on the cheek. Artemis also has a psychic connection with Apollo as shown in Artemis the Loyal.
Jason Bard was a United States Marine and is now a private detective in Star City. He owns a dog named Holly and is dating Artemis Crock.
According to one story, Artemis loved the giant huntsman Orion and lived with him in the forest. Eventually, Artemis became jealous. She thought that Orion loved another woman. In revenge, Artemis shot Orion with an arrow.
According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Actaeon accidentally saw Artemis (goddess of wild animals, vegetation, and childbirth) while she was bathing on Mount Cithaeron; for this reason he was changed by her into a stag and was pursued and killed by his own 50 hounds.
Artemis, the virgin goddess of nature and hunting, killed Niobe's seven daughters with her lethal arrows and their dead bodies were lying unburied for nine days.
The Meenakshi Temple in Madurai is the abode of a fish-eyed goddess, born with three nipples. Her father thought she was a freak. To visit the great temple in Madurai today is to navigate a dozen streets and discover an army of beggars besieging the 700-year-old structure.
Aphrodite was the goddess of love, sex, and beauty. Unsurprisingly for a love goddess, she was said to have emerged from the foam generated when the severed testicles of her father, Uranus, were thrown into the sea by his son, the Titan Cronus.
Most deities in mythology are specifically described as male or female, but Hermaphroditus is the only god that we know of that has both sexes. Not much is known about the god Hermaphroditus since mentions of their existence remain sparse, aside from a few myths.