e title Kore became almost a proper name, though the designation was
not so definite as in the cases of Bel and Ishtar.[1354]

+787+. As the Kore is the representative of vegetable life, so Hestia
stands in general for the indoor life, the family. She long retained
this local character, but gradually assumed the position of the great
goddess of the home center, the hearth,[1355] and was connected with the
household fires and festivals. She represents the more intimate social
life of the family in contrast with Hera, who stands for the government
of the household.

+788+. The development of the functions of Artemis is comparatively
clear. The origin of the name is doubtful, but in the earliest records
she is connected with the fertile earth, with vegetable and also with
animal life.[1356] This character indicates that she was at one time a
local, all-sufficient deity, though it is hardly possible to determine
her original seat. As a local goddess in the hunting area she was
naturally connected with the chase, and as a female divinity she was the
patroness of marriage and the protector of human birth. Her original
nature as the maiden appears in the representation of her as a virgin
which occurs in Homer.[1357] There is no contradiction between this
character and her function of presiding over marriage and birth if we
consider her as a local goddess who from one point of view was regarded
as a simple maiden, from another point of view as the protector of
women.[1358] Thus invested with the control of these important features
of life she naturally became a general patroness, a guardian. Later she
was connected with Apollo as his sister, exactly by what steps we do not
know; and in the mythical constructions she was represented as the
daughter of Zeus and Leto.[1359]

+789+. The Hellenic goddess Artemis is to be distinguished from the
Ephesian deity to whom the Greeks gave the same name, though when the
Greeks came into close contact with Asia Minor the two were identified.
And in fact, though in historical origin the two deities are to be kept
apart, they doubtless go back to the same conception. The Ephesian
goddess was the Great Mother--she stood specifically for the idea of
maternity which lies at the basis of the world; the Greek divinity,
beginning as a local protectress, took on larger functions which gave
her general resemblance to the universal mother.

+790+. The relation between Artemis and Hekate is an illust