Artemis is the Greek Goddess of the Moon and of the Hunt. She is the twin sister of Apollo, the God of the Sun and Music and Prophecy. She was thought to spend the nights roaming the forests among all the wild things and animals of the world. Though she was a huntress, she was a caretaker of wild animals and places. She was known to punish human hunters that killed unnecessarily or for sport. Her own chariot was drawn by beautiful silver stags.
In one myth of hers, a hunter named Actaeon saw her bathing once in the forest. Displeased, she turned him into a stag and had her hounds hunt and kill him. Thus she not only punished hunters for their crimes against nature, but also had a sense of irony when dealing punishment. As Goddess of the Moon and the Hunt, she has a double connection to nature. She protected animals and natural places, and despised cities and crowded places.…show more content… It is interesting to note that it was belived she controlled the tides by roping the sea waves with her magical rope and reigning them in. the ancients came to this conclusion long before our science discovered the relationship between the gravity of the moon and our tidal waves. The ancients already observed this effect relating to the moon, but attributed it to Artemis herself rather than the celestial body of the
