Plenty of scholars have observed that the moon is seen as Artemis’s domain for no better reason than that the sun (which also has its own god, Helios) is connected to Apollo. As his sister, therefore, Artemis must be linked to the moon. There is, of course, another reason why young girls might be interested in a moon goddess, but it seems to have been a step too far for male academics of previous centuries to note that menstruation is often linked to lunar cycles
