Artemis

 

Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, virginity, and the natural environment. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo. Even though she is a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. 

Sacred animals: goat, bee, bear, lion, greif, bull

Sacred plants: fir tree, laurel and Artemesia Vulgaris (mugwort).

Other sacred symbols include: Silver, bow, moon.

Other names/titles: 

Aeginaea ("Goat Goddess") at her sacred site at Taenarus.
Aegeria "Giver of Life" 
Aetole: Name for Artemis at Naupactus
Agoraea "Protector of the People" Title of Artemis and Athena in Sparta
Agrotera/Agraea/Agrotora: Artemis as the huntress. 
Ambulia "Goddess Who Delays Death" Title at Sparta

The Amnisiades are her attendants, who care for her sacred deer.  

The pictures on the left show the Artemis Ephesia, which was a special mother and fertility goddess of her own right, later fused by the Greek with Artemis. The Artemesion in Ephesus (today Turkey) was her temple and one of the world wonders. 

Her festival was held on the 6th of May, called the Artemesia and every four years was an even bigger one called Ephesia. The festival included a movement of the goddess statue, which was made of wood, through town on a special path (from the Artemesion to the State Agora, the Kuretstreet, to the theater and back to the Artemesion), as well as a feeding of the goddess (theoxenie) with salt and herbs. There may have been included a bath in the near sea.