Rundas

God of fortune. Hittite and Hurrian.

Also associated with hunting, he is symbolized by a double eagle carrying prey in its talons.

Huvi

God of hunting. Ovimbundu [central Angola, West Africa]. All meat is kept in front of his shrines, which are decorated with poles capped by skulls. He is propitiated by dance and offerings, presided over by a priesthood.

ARTEMIS

ORIGIN Greek, but known extensively through western Asia. Principally goddess of animals and hunting, but in Greek-speaking Asia, a mother goddess.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 800 BC and earlier until Christianization (circa AD 400) and probably later.

SYNONYMS Potnia Theron (mistress of the animals).

Arduinna

Goddess of forests and hunting. Romano-Celtic (Continental European). Known only from inscriptions and figurines in the Ardennes region. Depicted riding on the back of a wild boar and presumed to be a guardian deity of boars. Identified by the Romans with the goddess DIANA.

Britomartis

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.

 

Britomartis was the Minoan goddess of the mountains and hunting, in close relation to Diktynna and Aphaea, forerunner of Potnia theron (Mistress of Animals) and Artemis, partly identified with them.