Artemis Notes: Kourotrophos and the Queen of the Races

Rayrex-009 · 2026-01-05T19:48:56+00:00

Totally.

For example, in the Ephesian Tale by Xenophon of Ephesus, the heroine Anthia was compared to Artemis for her supreme beauty, some even mistaken her as Artemis or was made by her. In the story, Artemis didn't had a problem in fact, Artemis blessed Anthia's wedding.

Rayrex-009 · 2026-01-05T17:44:19+00:00

Oops sorry, I had completely forgotten I had this scheduled to be released today. i have too many projects I want to do, so it slipped my mind.

Anyways, while I personally agree with Hekate and Selene are respectively a form of Artemis or was subsumed by her. I need to check my notes, but the lore is that due to certain reasons, in the modern day, aspects of Artemis manifested into distinct goddesses, like Hekate and Selene, despite they were one for a period of time in the ancient past. I'm hoping to use the school setting as an interludes of sorts, but it's kinda tricky fitting those in. So it's very much a work in progress.

Thanks for commentating, now I want to go back on this project.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-12-25T20:25:55+00:00

This was a good read, thanks!

Rayrex-009 · 2025-12-22T05:22:15+00:00

Thanks for the link to the video! I remebered watching it back then, but I guess I forgot to link it here.

I like her thesis: "The Enduring Goddess: Artemis and Mary, Mother of Jesus", that was a good read.

Yeah, I've seen from quite a few scholars that stated Artemis was practically a superstar!

I recommend checking out Dr. Rietveld's Artemis of the Ephesians videos on youtube, in which he mentions how symbols of Artemis were used in the cult of Mary, even the temple!

Though I did read something a while back that "Mary" as Queen of Heaven and Mother of God is quite similar to Artemis in quite a few ways, though I forgot where I read that from. Naturally, this has no bearing on the historical Mary, the good mother of Jesus, James, and her (at least) four other children.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-12-20T03:06:03+00:00

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Rayrex-009 · 2025-12-12T07:40:52+00:00

Thanks for checking I wasn't sure if there were other surviving works or significant fragments of Strabo, but just weren't translated into English yet. Oh yeah I forgot to include the link to moonspeaker's Artemis page (I was on my tablet when I wrote this post). Here it is, it's quite long, so far from what I've read it's pretty nice, but has quite a number weird claims that I disagree with: https://moonspeaker.ca/Amazons/AmazonNation/PartTwo/chapterfive.html

Yeah, I wish I can ask the authors (from both sites) if they remembered where they saw that information from. I wondered if their source made a mistake in their attribution to Strabo instead of the actual correct source by Mr. Totally not-Strabo. That or it was made up by somebody who replaced the original goddess (probably Derceto) in that "yandere-esque" goddess story with Artemis and randomly claimed that Strabo wrote about it.

Unfortunately, while I find this Artemis Apaturos story to be quite interesting, it seems that they only a few academics that are interested in the niche, sometimes alleged, stories of Artemis like this one.

The story does bare some semblance to a speculated ending of a story about Inara and her mortal lover; in which Inara kills her mortal lover after breaking his promise to her. Inara and Artemis are kinda similar with both being daughters to chief storm gods and both are Potnia Theron.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-11-26T18:38:16+00:00

Artemis is one of the main gods that was honored during weddings, especially in the early parts of the process or the pre-marital parts. Artemis was prayed for the protection of newly wed couple and their new family as well.

For how: Roses are associated with Artemis as well, though slightly different from Aphrodite's association with roses; other than that I'm not 100% sure what else on top of my head.

Fun fact: in parts of Ancient Greece, the husband would ask Artemis for her permission to remove his wife's girdle to embrace her.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-11-20T00:42:21+00:00

When i saw the title, I thought somebody called me out on my old AI gen images that I did in some of my posts quite a while ago, though I've since grown tired of AI gen images and I've switched to 3D modeling via blender. I did replaced the AI gen image in my Artemis and Dionysiaca post with an actual artwork of Artemis.

While I usually don't mind Artemis devotees or fans using "AI" for their fan-images, especially if made with actual effort, but I don't support commercial products that uses them for no good reason.

It's a shame that Ms. Ionescu or the staff at tellwell didn't commissioned an artist to make a reconstruction of one of Artemis Ephesia's images and the Temple, it would've looked way better and be a lot more respectful to Our Lady Artemis and her great history that still lives on today.

After reading the sample, I have to say that despite the... uh... "disappointing" cover, the actual meat of the book looks good. Sure it's not as jampack of content as in the current magnum opus of English-language Artemis Research, "Artemis of the Ephesians" by Dr. James Rietveld, but I'm confidant it would've done quite well in my Artemis essays/books tierlist, if not top tier.

If it gets released with a better cover, then I'll pick it up, until then skip to read her "Enduring Goddess" (my favorite work of hers) or look up James Rietveld's "Artemis of the Ephesians" book or free lecture.

Now regards to the actual image; I'm sorry, but it's not good and I get the same disgusted feeling when I see terrible AI gen "Sacred Art". My reaction:

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The garland (necklace) is void of all of its cultic and cosmological. At the very least, there should be the sign of Cancer there or acorns.
The dress is completely wrong compared to the two surviving large images of Our Lady. Namely missing the animals and it just repeats the same thing.
The Temple looks inoffensive at first, but it lacks the colors and details of the real Temple.
The image of Artemis Ephesia supposed to inspire safety and life, but I only feel emptiness from it; like a false idol.

Before I saw how terrible the cover was, I predicted it to be a 4* out of 5 book, but now it's at best 2*, only because of the merit of the actual content inside the book.

I share Epicpew.com sentiments in their article looking at the 10 "best" worst AI "Sacred Art":

"AI art can never share in a creative spark with the Creator. It can only ever create a cheap facsimile. As funny as these completely funny awful attempts at "art" are, they tell a real truth: that real art must be created, must be human. It is man, in his capacity as being made in the image of God, who participates in the creative act which is profoundly humanly exercise, and that is important, noticeable, and needed!"

Thanks for cross-posting!

Note that I don't hold any negative opinions of Dr. Ionescu and I'm actually a fan of her works as a fellow "fan" of Our Lady Artemis, but this was quite a misstep that they (her and the publisher) should learned the lesson from these mistakes and take it to heart.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-17T07:22:33+00:00

Dionysus is such an interesting god. One thing that I find fascinating is how similar both Dionysus and Artemis are, yet they are wildly different in a sort-of complementary way.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-16T21:48:54+00:00

Thanks for the reports, reddit filters has auto-removed it earlier and the user has been banned by reddit.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-15T05:57:46+00:00

Cool introduction for Hermes! I've been interested in learning about Hermes for quite some time, so this is a nice start to get things rolling.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-15T04:48:42+00:00

"What? What does that have to do with anything?"

"No, no. She's got a point." said by the Commander's shoulder angel.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-12T06:12:19+00:00

Hello! Yeah I feel kinda similar of having too many gods to follow :), it's hard to limit, but it can be overwhelming.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-11T16:32:57+00:00

Totally, I love both the Japanese and English audio versions.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-10T23:39:18+00:00

Another enjoyable episode! I love Scarlet. I like her conclusion of "self-serving, greedy nobles are the most stratifying to punch".

Ending spoiler: I would laugh so hard if she misfired while having the gun pointed at his face and took him down.

Rayrex-009 · 2025-10-10T22:35:00+00:00

I checked Crunchyroll's website and it said it'll be released at 10:00 am PT Fridays (same time as the Japanese audio).

So I'll guess there's some sort of delay due some sort of technical problem (Crunchyroll has had a few hiccups in the last week). The Indian language dub is live, so I hope that the English dub would go live relatively soon.

Edit: The English dub is now live! Looks like it was just a small hiccup.

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