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Arnakuagsak, goddess responsible for ensuring the hunters were able to catch enough food and that the people remained healthy and strong; Arnapkapfaaluk, sea goddess who inspired fear in hunters; Nerrivik, the sea mother and patron of fishermen and hunters; Nujalik, goddess of hunting on land; Pinga, goddess of the hunt, fertility, and medicine
Diana was initially a hunting goddess and goddess of the local woodland at Nemi, [72] but as her worship spread, she acquired attributes of other similar goddesses. As she became conflated with Artemis, she became a moon goddess , identified with the other lunar goddesses goddess Luna and Hekate . [ 72 ]
Creation, Spider grandmother [3] Muyingwa: Germination of seeds, a kachina: Taiowa: Sun spirit, creator Innu: Kanipinikassikueu: Provider of caribou [4] Matshishkapeu: Spirit of the anus [4] Inuit: Igaluk: Lunar deity Nanook: Master of bears Nerrivik: Sea mother and food provider Pinga: Goddess of the hunt, fertility, and medicine Sedna: Sea ...
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The tale recounts the fate of a young hunter named Actaeon, who was a grandson of Cadmus, and his encounter with chaste Artemis, known to the Romans as Diana, goddess of the hunt. The latter is nude and enjoying a bath in a spring with help from her escort of nymphs when the mortal man unwittingly stumbles upon the scene. The nymphs scream in ...
Britomartis (/ b r ɪ t oʊ ˈ m ɑːr t ɪ s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Βριτόμαρτις) was a Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes believed to be an oread , a mountain nymph , [ citation needed ] but she was often conflated or syncretized with Artemis and Aphaea , the ...
In Greek mythology, Siproites (/ s ɪ p r ˈ ɔɪ t ɪ s / sip-ROY-teez; Ancient Greek: Σιπροίτης, romanized: Siproítēs), also romanized as Siproetes or Siproeta, is the name of a minor Cretan hero, a hunter who saw the goddess Artemis naked while she was bathing and was then transformed into a woman as punishment, paralleling the story of the hunter Actaeon.
Leshy or Leshi [a] is a tutelary deity of the forest in pagan Slavic mythology.As Leshy rules over the forest and hunting, he may be related to the Slavic god Porewit. [1]A similar deity called Svyatibor (Svyatobor, Svyatibog) is thought to have been revered by both the Eastern and Western Slavs as the divine arbiter of woodland realms, and/or the sovereign ruler over other diminutive forest ...