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In 2001, Kathie Fife backpacked the Maine Appalachian Trail with her dog, starting at Mt Katahdin in Maine's Baxter State Park and hiked 281 miles back to New Hampshire. Her trail name was Artemis. It took her one month to complete and she says, "it was the absolute best experience" of her life!
Artemis (pronounced ahr'-tuh-mis or Ar-te-miss, not Ar-teeh-mis) is a greek goddess who nurtured and cared for the wild creatures along their journeys. She was known as being independent and thrived on challenges but also had a caring and compassionate side to her. When her father, Zeus, asked her what she wanted for her birthday at a tender age of 12, she requested that she have all the mountains in the world to live on, and that she would have the job of bringing light into the world.
Artemis is associated with the moon, especially the crescent or "new" moon. Phoebe was one of the many names Artemis was called. The name Phoebe means the "light one" or "bright one". Artemis "Goddess of Light" had the divine duty of illuminating the darkness. Artemis was often depicted carrying a candle or torch, lighting the way for others, leading them through territories yet uncharted. In Greek mythology Artemis, despite her "wildness" (her refusal to conform to conventional ways or tradition) and her fierce independence, was depicted as one of the compassionate, healing goddesses. Of all the Greek goddesses, she was the most self-sufficient, living life on her own terms, comfortable both in solitude and in holding the reins of leadership.
The Greek goddess Artemis symbolizes courage. She illuminates those places that terrify us and lends us her strength to bring us safely through our fears.
Artemis Natural Resource Designs, LLC is a company that specializes in providing professional environmental consulting services that is science based - with attractive graphic designs to communicate the often dry, and hard to follow concepts of scientific details - into an engaging and informative art form.
We believe that people are more likely to understand information if it is presented in a way that is grounded in solid facts, but also provides an element that the person can relate to. In return, the person receiving the message is more likely to retain the valuable information, and also more likely to want to share that newly acquired knowlege, and "do the right thing", when presented with the opportunity.
