The Female Hunter Defeats the Male Hunter

How the Artemis Instinct in women competes with the Apollo, Actaeon and Orion in males

Artemis and her brother, Apollo

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The Night Huntress of Male Hunters

Apollo and Artemis were the twins born to Zeus and Leto, a daughter of the Titans, Coeus and Phoebe.

Leto was a very kind and good deity but was hated by Hera, the wife of Zeus, for having the obvious affair with her husband. So when Leto became pregnant and Hera, the goddess of dominion over the whole world, disallowed any place in the world to be fit and safe for the delivery.

She even held her daughter Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, homebound, so that she could not assist Leto in her labor.

Zeus felt sorry for Leto and changed her into a quail to conceal her as she gave birth to their children. However, there seemed to be no place in the world willing to offer a shelter to Leto, now desperately looking for a safe nest in which to deliver...

Finally, Leto discovered a tiny island close to Mykonos named "Asteria" - a harsh place struck by high waves and gale force winds that didn’t even have a fixed position in the sea, and yet was willing to accept the goddess. When Leto settled on the island, the island became firm and its name was changed into "Delos"- "the unconcealed one".

For nine days and nine nights Leto was suffering with labor pains, until on the tenth day, Leto moved close to a small lake, leaned against a tree, unfastened her belt and gave birth to Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt.

Artemis then acted as a midwife to her mother to bring her brother Apollo to the world. For this reason, she was declared as the new goddess of the childbirth, usurping the role of Hera’s daughter Eilithyia.

In this way, Apollo is not born without the intervention of Artemis, and she is responsible for him, more powerful than him, and he owes a debt to her.