Note 13 — Chapter XI · Tree-, Herb-, and Stone-lore
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The goddess of the pine was evidently a Far Eastern Aphrodite, as well as a Far Eastern Artemis—an Artemis who provided medicine for women in the form of the mugwort, was a goddess of birth, a guardian of treasure, and a goddess of travellers and hunters. The Romans associated with Diana (Artemis) her loved one, Dianus or Janus,13 as the tree-goddess in Japan was associated with a deified human lover.