Artemis is the sister of Apollo and daughter of Zeus and Leto. Hera would not let Leto give birth on Olympus so Leto had to find a city that would let her give birth there but, Hera warned that if a city let Leto in they would face punishment. Finally Leto found an island that was uninhabited to give birth on. The island had just been raised out of the sea by Poseidon. When Artemis was still a child she asked her father to never make her marry for she wanted to be an eternal madden. Artemis is the goddess of the hunt. She was given seven arrows as soft as moonbeams and Apollo was given seven arrows that were as hard as rays from the blinding sun. Apollo is the god of music. Apollo and Artemis were very close, so when Artemis met Orion and they became hunting partners and almost became lovers Apollo was so mad that she had chosen another favorite man he sent a scorpion to kill Orion. Artemis was so mad at Apollo she made him hang Orion in the sky as a constellation.
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