Artemis is one of the oldest goddesses of Greece. She is believed to be
traced back to the second millennium BC in the form of a nursing mother
bear. During the Minoan culture, she was called, “Mistress of the
Animals”. By the classical era of Greece, she became part of the
Olympian pantheon as the daughter of Zeus and a nymph named Leto. After
only three hours from her birth, she help her mother with the birth of
her twin brother Apollo, the son god.
On her third birthday, she ask her father for six things: bow and
arrows, hunting costume, to bring light to the night sky, sixty nymphs
to serve her, not to be force to dress as a lady, and not be force to
marry. “The last wish as understood as a demand to maintain female
antinomy and independence”.
( The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft by Judika Illes,copyright 2005)
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