Jun 26
In ancient Greece:
Boys and men worshipped Artemis, she had priests as well as priestesses.
Maidens, married women, and mothers worshipped Artemis. Her cults were not for girls and virgins only.
Artemis was a goddess of transitions, of the constant moving states of being, of the process of going through the stages of life; she helped her worshippers be born, grow up, get married, become parents, grow old. In this manner, she presided over virginity as well as the inevitable loss of it as one left childhood behind and entered adulthood.
