Artemis

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her children there.

Artemis is also a goddess of childbirth, having assisted her mother in giving birth to Apollo (labor for him lasted nine days). So even though she's a virgin, she's a goddess of childbirth (more like a midwife).

Artemis's faithful follower was Callisto.

The deer or stag was her favorite animal.

In art, she wears a short dress or tunic (so she can run through the forest easily).

At Ephesus (which was in Asia Minor), Artemis was identified with the Near-Eastern fertility goddess named Cybele, and there's a reference to this temple in Acts 19.

The major myths associated with Artemis:

Niobe: Daughter of Tantalus; she bore 7 sons and 7 daughters and boasted that she was superior to Leto because she had more children; she also bragged that she, too, had divinity in her family: Atlas and Zeus were her grandfathers, and Zeus was her husband's father, too. Leto (Latona in Ovid) whipped Apollo and Artemis up into rage, so they killed the children ...

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