MYTHOLOGY: Favorite Goddesses: Artemis
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Ancient Greek: Ἄρτεμις, pronounced [ár.te.mis] in Classical Attic) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals,wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.
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i’m made of stretch marks and sarcastic comments
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date a girl who specializes in ghost stories. date a girl who refuses to let the dead rest in piece. date a girl who tells tall tales about the past and gives you primary sources as to why you should believe they’re true. date a historian.
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beauty @ louis vuitton fw16
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summer is actually the gothest time of the year, because it is the time that we goths suffer the most, which is goth
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I’m what the kids call ‘an atrocity to god’.
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