Athena-Artemis Athena-Artemis The book Athena-Artemis (Helsinki: Kirja kerrallaan 2005 and 2006) is compilation of a novel and other texts. In Seppo Sakari Telenius' novel manuscript (1992), published as Auringolla ratsastajat ("Riders on the Sun") [Goddess Artemis Ltd., 1995 and 1996. Books on Demand GmbH, 2011. ], the goddess of war has no name. The goddess shows up as a combination of Minerva and Pallas Athena. The other important personage in the novel Nina Minerva, she too carries characteristics of the goddess. On the other hand Nina Minerva has, especially in her youth, been more like Artemis and Diana. At the end
Artemis was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic rituals and formed part of a larger bear cult found further afield in other Indo-European cultures (e.g., Gaulish Artio). It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshipped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis. While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name "Artemis" are the Mycenaean Greek , "a-te-mi-to" /Artemitos/ and , "a-ti-mi-te" /Artimitei/, written in Linear B at Pylos. R. S. P. Beekes suggested that the "e"/"i" interchange points to a Pre-Greek origin. Artemis was venerated in