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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> try to find out what about Artemis before she was considered to be the
> godess of the huntress.. so far I remember, she was a deity of the
> storm;
> Alex
Homer Iliad XXI, 470
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potnia thêrôn, Artemis
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"the queen of the wild beasts, Artemis of the wild wood"
Greek:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133:book=21:card=468
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hôs ara phônêsas palin etrapet': aideto gar rha
patrokasignêtoio migêmenai en palamêisi.
470
ton de kasignêtê mala neikese potnia thêrôn
Artemis agroterê, kai oneideion phato muthon:
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English:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134;query=card%3D%23360;layout=;loc=21.434
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So saying he turned him back,
for he had shame to deal in blows with his father's brother.
[470]
But his sister railed at him hotly, even the queen of the wild beasts, Artemis of the wild wood, and spake a word of reviling
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so no storm here....and before Homer ....'was nobody'.....
Marius