1) Hunting goddess 2) Offspring of Zeus
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Britomartis (Βριτόμαρτις) was the Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting. She is among the Minoan goddess figures that passed through the Mycenaeans` culture into classical Greek mythology, with transformations that are unclear in both transferrals. For the Greeks, Britomartis was a mountain nymph (an oread) whom Greeks recognized als....
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[butterfly] Britomartis is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The genus, which was erected by Lionel de Nicéville in 1895 has two members Sikkim - Burma ...
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Lady of the Nets, Inventor of nets (diktia), according to Diodorus Siculus and also celebrated on the island of Aegina, to where she fled, as Aphaia. Also referred to as the 'nymphe of Gortyn' and Laphria. Born to Zeus and Carme Karme and the object of King Minos' desires. Other writers claim the name is derived from the fishermen's nets into which...
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Cretan goddess sometimes identified with the Greek Artemis. According to Callimachus in Hymn 3 (3rd century ), Britomartis was a daughter of Zeus ...
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Originally a mother goddess of eastern Crete; a later myth identified her with Dictynna, a similar goddess of western Crete. Pursued by
Minos for nine months, she flung herself into the sea, was...
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In Cretan mythology, Britomartis was a daughter of Zeus and Carme. Like Artemis, she was a virgin huntress. Minos loved and pursued her, and to escape from him she threw herself into the sea but was saved by Artemis who made her a goddess.
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