How Is Artemis Presented As The Greek Goddess Of The Moon

The Greek goddess Artemis was the god of the moon, hunting, and childbirth. Firstly, she is presented as the Greek goddess of delivery due to her mother's nine-day labor of Hera’s curse to ensure that no woman will have to go through what Leto did. Secondly, she is presented as the Greek goddess of the hunt to teach a lesson about humbleness when killing for food. Finally, she was portrayed as the Greek goddess of the moon to provide comfort to people seeking refuge in the darkness when they are distraught. She was initially depicted this way as a symbol of mental healing where people can confess their thoughts to the “moon” or Artemis. The purpose of her portrayal as the Greek goddess of the moon is because of Artemis’s silver bow, which is

One of the many women he happened to “take an interest in” was Leto, daughter of the titan Coeus and Pheobe. As all women usually do, Leto falls for Zeus’s charm, and they have a brief relationship that ends with Zeus’s marriage to Hera, Queen of the gods, goddess of marriage, and the daughter of the titans Cronus and Rhea. After Zeus and Hera’s marriage, Leto finds out she is pregnant with Artemis and Apollo, which infuriates Hera. Eventually, Hera gets so inflamed with Leto’s pregnancy that she curses Leto so she can never have children on solid ground. For her last few weeks of expectancy, Hera chased Leto, determined to make her suffer as she tried to reach some place fit to have Artemis and Apollo that wasn’t on solid ground. Finally, her time ran out, and she was forced into labor without unsolid land until she came upon the barren isle of Delos, a floating island at the time. Once there, she was allowed to have her first child Artemis, who turned around right as she was born and helped her little brother Apollo out of their mother's womb. Once Artemis grew older and reminisced on her mother's journeys, she vowed never to allow a woman to do that

Among the ten wishes was her vow to remain a virgin forever to avoid heartbreak. Her purity allowed her to have a place among the Twelve gods. However, she rejects this position often as she would rather be in the woods than be known as the only pure goddess. Though when a child, Artemis, wished not to have lovers, as she got older, she became attracted to only the men that are true of heart and are not greedy. Though men like that were hard to find during her time, she came upon a few. One of her male followers, Orion, was the most honorable man and caught Artemis’s attention. She fell in love with him so hard that she almost disregarded her vows. However, Apollo intruded on the relationship before anything can happen and murders