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Artemis

is the twin sister of Apollo and a notable warrior-woman as the god of the hunt and wilderness. Like most warrior women, she is a very notable archer. In the contemporary pop setting, Artemis has come to represent archery universally and is often used to symbolize this in Western cultures. She is the god of chastity who may defy or support a lot of patriarchal values in ancient Greece, depending on how “chastity” is being presented or defined. As the god of the hunt, wilderness, animals, et cetera, she is memetically unpredictable, like a storm, which is also associated with femininity in many cultures and languages. The wilderness, chastity, and the hunt, a hit-or-miss endeavor, tend to symbolize a certain amount of uncertainty. Read differently, Artemis is similar to the ideals of knighthood in the middle-ages: purity, chastity, fortitude, resolve, etc. In this way she may be seen as a sort of paladin-like archetype that might feed into a lot of the anti-male attributes often attributed to Amazons. Amazons avoid men to remain chaste. Again, this sounds very Western as it is similar to Catholicism's nuns. However you read this character, she stands out as a female god who is not associated with some form of pathos like lust, love, hatred, etc. Instead, she is actually the antithesis of pathos; an almost zen-like archer who must remain pure and disciplined for the hunt.

artemis.txt · Last modified: 2022/08/12 16:47 by jl