since diana(the goddess or artemis) was a hunter what did she hunt???

Question

she coudnt have hunted animals because she protected them

Answer 1

She hunted stag (deer) and she has special arrows crafted by Hepaestus that would bring a humane painless death to the animal. She also hunted with hounds and is often depected with hounds and a dead stag.

Just because you protect animals doesnt mean you cant hunt or are a vegetarian. I love animals and protect them but I hunt too.

Answer 2

Diana (mythology)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Diana (goddess))
Jump to: navigation, search

Classical Roman statue of Diana.In Roman mythology, Diana was the virgin goddess of the hunt, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis. Born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, Diana was the daughter of Jupiter and Latona.

Diana was the perpetually virginal huntress goddess, associated with wild animals and woodlands. She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Luna, and was an emblem of chastity. Oak groves were especially sacred to her. She was praised for her strength, athletic grace, beauty and hunting skill. She made up a trinity with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife; and Virbius, the woodland god.

Diana was worshipped in a temple on the Aventine Hill and at the city of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood. Being placed on the Aventine, and thus outside the pomerium, meant that Diana's cult essentially remained a 'foreign' one, like that of Bacchus; she was never officially 'transferred' to Rome as Juno was after the sack of Veii. It seems that her cult originated in Aricia, where her priest, the Rex Nemorensis remained. Diana was regarded with great reverence by lower-class citizens and slaves; slaves could receive asylum in her temples. She was worshipped at a festival on August 13, when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her shrine on the Aventine.

Diana is usually depicted with a deer. This is because Diana was the patroness of hunting. It is also a reference to the myth of Acteon (or Actaeon), a prince who saw her bathing naked. Diana transformed Acteon into a stag and sent his own hunting dogs to kill him.


[edit] Modern day

Statue of Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Diana featured on the Belgian Federal Police Special Units logo.Diana remains an important figure in some modern mythologies. Those who believe that prehistoric peoples lived in matriarchal societies consider Diana to have originated in a mother goddess worshipped at that time.

Today there is a branch of Wicca named for her, Dianic Wicca, which is characterized by an exclusive focus on the feminine aspect of the Divine.

find another link about the goddess diana also more information on other goddess

Answer 3

Hunter goddesses?
Very good question! It is a misunderstanding of humankind that the very ancient people really hunted animals for food. As Sigmund Freud in Totem and Tabu pointed out, the people admired the spiritual powers of animals and chose them as their totems, protectors. Once a year they shared and ate one totem aimal in order to ingest/gain his/her spiritualpowers!

When bad fortune befell the clan after this, the ones who ate the totem were blamed. Finally, their was the rule that everyone of the clan had to eat a piece of the totem animal, except for babies, so that nobody could blame the others. This custom survived the ages: not too long ago it was still custom in Germany to eat meat on Sunday, and everyone had to eat! Of course, the reason for it was forgotten long ago!

The hunter was the one with bow and arrow, both symbols of our life energy kundalini, which can rise up, or shoot up, the spine (bow) like an arrow! Ancient symbols tell us the story about what the ancients had in mind. The hunter certainly was not the one hunting animals, but symbolizing the rise of Kundalini along the spine like an arrow, symbolized by bow and arrow!

Thus your question is very thoughtful and meets the thinking of the ancient people who, as their symbols tell, were very spiritual. Scientists found out that they were mainly vegetarians (except for the totem meal once a year), until at least 10,000 BC. All they originally cared about was spiritual energy.

May be we can learn form our ancestors what food was intended by nature (and God) for us to eat.

Thanks for asking, cordially, India.Magica

Answer 4

you can hunt animals and protect them, if you want to hunt again next year you better be sure to protect them its called ecologically sound usage

Answer 5

cute men, of course---what else would I hunt?...lol

Answer 6

yeah, it doesnt make sense because she never existed