Potnia Theron - Unknown Artist

April 14, 2020

Potnia Theron - Unknown Artist

"The term is first used once by Homer as a descriptor of Artemis and often used to describe female divinities associated with animals."

-taken from Wikipedia

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"But his sister railed at him hotly, even the queen of the wild beasts (Potnia Theron), Artemis of the wild wood, and spake a word of reviling:“Lo, thou fleest, thou God that workest afar, and to Poseidon hast thou utterly yielded the victory, and given him glory for naught! Fool, why bearest thou a bow thus worthless as wind?"

"τὸν δὲ κασιγνήτη μάλα νείκεσε πότνια θηρῶν
Ἄρτεμις ἀγροτέρη, καὶ ὀνείδειον φάτο μῦθον:
φεύγεις δὴ ἑκάεργε, Ποσειδάωνι δὲ νίκην
πᾶσαν ἐπέτρεψας, μέλεον δέ οἱ εὖχος ἔδωκας:
νηπύτιε τί νυ τόξον ἔχεις ἀνεμώλιον αὔτως"

-Homer, The Iliad 21.470-474