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Aristaeus, god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting; Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon; Heracles Kynagidas; Pan, in addition to being a god of the wild and shepherds, was also a hunting god. Persephone, the goddess of life and death, also known for being Hades' wife
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Devana (Polish: Dziewanna [d͡ʑɛˈvan.na] ⓘ, Latin: Dzewana), Zevana (Polish: Ziewanna), less often Zievonia (Polish: Ziewonia, Zewonia) is the goddess of wild nature, forests, hunting and the moon worshiped by the Western Slavs. In the sources, she was first mentioned in the 15th century by Jan Długosz, who compared her to the Roman ...
Anat (/ ˈ ɑː n ɑː t /, / ˈ æ n æ t /), Anatu, classically Anath (/ ˈ eɪ n ə θ, ˈ eɪ ˌ n æ θ /; Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎐𐎚 ʿnt; Hebrew: עֲנָת ʿĂnāṯ; Phoenician: 𐤏𐤍𐤕, romanized: ʿNT; Greek: Αναθ, romanized: Anath; Egyptian: ꜥntjt) was a goddess associated with warfare and hunting, best known from the Ugaritic texts.
Britomartis – Greek goddess of mountains and hunting; Bugady Musun – Siberian animal guardian who took the form of a reindeer; Deer Woman – seductive forest spirit whose form was partially a deer; Devana – Slavic goddess of forests and the hunt; Mielikki – Finnish hunting goddess who herded cows and could determine the success of a hunt
In myth and literature, Artemis is presented as a hunting goddess of the woods, surrounded by her chaste band of nymphs. In the myth of Actaeon, when the young hunter sees her bathing naked, he is transformed into a deer by the angered goddess and is then devoured by his own hunting dogs, who do not recognize their master.
The goddess swept the young princess off to Tauris where she became a priestess at the Temple of Artemis. The earliest known accounts of the purported death of Iphigenia are included in Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris , both Athenian tragedies of the fifth century BC set in the Heroic Age.
Diana Hunting, Guillaume Seignac. The persona of Diana is complex, and contains a number of archaic features. Diana was originally considered to be a goddess of the wilderness and of the hunt, a central sport in both Roman and Greek culture. [12] Early Roman inscriptions to Diana celebrated her primarily as a huntress and patron of hunters.