god
Artemis
also: Diana
Greek virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, sister of Apollo. Rilke's 'Kretische Artemis' shapes her out of the headwind on a Cretan promontory, storming with her nymphs and hounds.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §2 the nymphs and the hounds
Artemis, the virgin huntress and moon-goddess, here in her archaic Cretan aspect, shaped by the sea-wind as she storms after game.
- New Poems: The Other Part §55 Dianas
Statues of Diana the huntress in the royal park—'at most smiled-at, but never implored gods,' the decorative deities of the ancien-régime gardens.