Diana goddess

Goddess Diana, the Queen of Heaven is the Roman Moon-Goddess and was originally worshipped on the mountain Tifata near Capua and in sacred forests.

Artemis is Apollo's twin sister, daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was born on the island of Delos. Artemis is the goddess of hunting, and the flocks. She protects every animal on earth, wild or tame. Later she also became the protector of women ιn labor.

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Diana, Dea della Caccia (ca-1887) “Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, 127 × 77.5 cm” [private collection] – Henry Holiday (British; 1839 - 1927).

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Marble. Roman copy of the 1st—2nd cent. CE of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, ca. 325 BCE.

The Judaeo-Christian tradition lacks any goddess, unlike its predecessors in Mediterranean cultures. Is there an equivalent among its saints, or the Virgin Mary? An exploration in paintings.

Diana, in Roman religion, goddess of wild animals and the hunt, identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. Like her Greek counterpart, she was also a goddess of domestic animals. As a fertility deity, she was invoked by women to aid conception and delivery. Learn more about Diana in this article.