OD+Religion+and+Mythology+Artemis

Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and was the twin sister of Apollo. Artemis was the god of the hunt, wild animals and fertility(she became the goddess of fertility in many cities).
===Artemis was also an Olympian goddess, and she was also a virgin goddess. Artemis took a regular vacation, roaming the forest and uncultivated land with her lions and panthers to name a few, she also had a bow and arrow made for her by Hephaestus and the Cyclopes'.===

Artemis became the goddess of protecting children during childbirth as after she was born she helped her mother cross the ocean to Delos and helped her mother give birth to her brother Apollo.
===As Artemis is associated with chasity she asked her father(Zeus) to make her an internal virgin. All of Artemis's companions are also virgins, any man that tried to court Artemis would be punished severly.=== ===One legend that involves Artemis is Orions death, It is said that Artemis put a spell on a scorpion which killed Orion and his dog, this is how the star cosalation of Orion came to be, the scorpion became Scorpio and his dog became Sirus(the dog star).===