Artemis was born a member of The Banas that had split off from the Amazons. These Amazons, under the leadership of Antiope (the Themysciran Queen Hippolyta's sister), eventually settled in Egypt and founded an Amazon city named Bana-Mighdall . The Bana Amazons renounced the Gods of Olympus and instead worshiped the Egyptian Goddesses Isis, Mammitu, Bast, Neith and Ishtar . These goddesses blessed the Amazons with a perpetual sandstorm around their city to protect them from outsiders. The Bana Amazons, however, would trade weapons and their skills for male slaves to increase their population. Artemis was the result of one of these liaisons.