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Chrisilakatos

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Chrisilakatos is a powerful goddess of hunting, described as 'of the golden arrow' in Homer's Iliad. She descends from a peak and travels along the ridges of Mount Erymanthos, that was sacred to the "Mistress of the animals". When the old goddess became wrathful, she would send the terrible Erymanthian boar to lay waste to fields.

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – -800
Historical notes
Appears in Homer's Iliad.

Relationships

aspect of
Artemis (Diana)
co occurs with
Chrisinios, Coryphaea, Cnagia, Daphnaea, Delia, Delphinia, Dereatis, Cynthia, Diktynna, Caryatis, Cedreatis, Chesias, Chitonia

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Sources

wikipedia (1)
  1. Epithets of Artemis

Source passages

“Chrisilakatos, of the golden arrow, in Homer's Iliad as a powerful goddess of hunting. In the Odyssey, she descends from a peak and travels along the ridges of Mount Erymanthos, that was sacred to the "Mistress of the animals".”

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