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| Helping young girls mature into womanhood; virgin goddess of animals, the hunt, and childbirth; represents the female initiator |
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| goddess of crossroads (unlucky as you might take wrong road), black magic and witchcraft, and underworld |
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| moon goddess, aspect of Artemis in the sky; moon goddess depicted with cape blowing in wind, drives chariot of the moon; moon in itself; fertility goddess (menstrual cycle corresponds with lunar cycle); fell in love with Endymion |
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| beautiful, young shepherd; Zeus gave him gift of perpetual youth and perpetual sleep for Selene; when he was not with Selene he slept |
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| son of the son of Apollo and Cyrene; stumbles upon Artemis and her maids while bathing, she splashed water into his eyes, turning him into a stag who is torn apart by his own hunting dogs |
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| Giant, hunter; blinded by King Oenopion, led by Cedalion to land of the rising sun where his blindness is cured; killed by Artemis - various stories as to how this came about |
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| Name means Greek for the most beautiful woman, one of Artemis’ hunting maidens, her favorite; Zeus fell in love with this woman and disguised himself as Artemis to seduce her; reveals himself as not fully female and rapes her, she becomes pregnant with son Arcas, Hera changed her into a bear out of jealousy/Zeus changed her into a bear to protect her from Hera/Artemis changed her into a bear as punishment for breaking her vow of chastity; eventually shot in bear form by Artemis or Arcas, made into the constellation of the Great Bear |
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| son of King Oeneus of Calydon, participated in the boar hunt; killed his uncles in conflict after the hunt and his mother killed him and then killed herself; mother cursed him/threw log into the fire to kill him |
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