A Common archetype in Hyperborean Spirituality is the goddess of death or the dead. Death personified when not given the role of Grim Reaper or other known deity is immediately thought of as female. Deities that fit this role include the Valkyries, Hel, Persephone, Prosperina, The Morrigan, Badb, Holda, Giltine, Morena, Tuonetar, and Ataegina to name a few. Women would often fulfill the role of prepping the body of the dead, as with birth they see us into the world and therefore they see as out of it. The goddesses of death are there to comfort the dead and allow them to move forward to the next life, they are a source of comfort as were our mothers in our youth and our wives in times of trouble. These goddesses were and are important, even the personified angel of death under Christianity is often depicted as female, in a call back to our blood memory of these beloved goddesses of our people. -TLK

Temple of Artemis, Brauron, Attica, Greece.

The temple of Artemis at Vravrona is a Doric temple built in the first half of 5th century BC at the site of an older temple (6th c. BC) destroyed by the Persians and it was the center of worship at the sanctuary. The cult statue of the goddess stood in the cella of the temple and a festival every four year the Brauronia was held in honour of the goddess. The possession of worshippers started from the sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia on Acropolis of Athens and arrived at the sanctuary of Brauron.
During the ritual of arkteia, girls from renowned families of Athens stayed in the sanctuary in order to be prepared for marriage and motherhood.