(marble statue of ‘cybele’)
(circa 50 AD)
(w ‘lion’ / ‘cornucopia’ / ‘crown’)
(the crown is shaped like ‘city walls’)
(depiction resembes a ‘high-status roman woman’)
(no wonder the romans condoned sodomy!)
(@ ‘getty villa’)
(a los angeles museum)
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/ˈsɪbɪli/
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‘phrygian’ –>
(matar kubileya / kubeleya / ‘kubileya’ / ‘kubeleya mother’)
(perhaps “mountain mother”)
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‘lydian’ –>
kuvava
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‘greek’ –>
(Κυβέλη (Kybele) / Κυβήβη (Kybebe) / Κύβελις (Kybelis))
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(‘cybele’ is an ‘anatolian mother goddess’)
(she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at ‘Çatalhöyük’, where statues of ‘plump women’ (sometimes sitting), have been found in ‘excavations’)
(she is phrygia’s only known ‘goddess’, and was probably its ‘national deity’)
(her ‘phrygian cult’ was ‘adopted’ + ”adapted’ by ‘greek colonists’ of ‘asia minor’ and spread to ‘mainland greece’ and its more distant ‘western colonies’ around the ‘6th century BC’)
(in ‘greece’, ‘cybele’ met with a ‘mixed reception’)
(she was partially assimilated to aspects of the earth-goddess ‘gaia’, her possibly minoan equivalent ‘rhea’, and the harvest–mother goddess ‘demeter’)
(some city-states (notably ‘athens’) evoked her as a ‘protector’, but her most celebrated greek ‘rites’ + ‘processions’ show her as an essentially foreign + exotic ‘mystery-goddess’ who arrives in a ‘lion-drawn chariot’ to the accompaniment of ‘wild music’, ‘wine’, and a ‘disorderly’ + ‘ecstatic’ following)
(uniquely in ‘greek religion’, she had a ‘eunuch mendicant priesthood’)
(many of her ‘greek cults’ included rites to a divine phrygian castrate shepherd-consort ‘attis’, who was probably a greek invention)
(in ‘greece’, ‘cybele’ is associated with ‘mountains’, ‘town + city walls’, ‘fertile nature’, and ‘wild animals’ (especially ‘lions’))
(in ‘rome’, ‘cybele’ was known as magna mater (“great mother”))
(the ‘roman state’ adopted + developed a particular form of her cult after the ‘sibylline oracle’ recommended her conscription as a ‘key religious ally’ in rome’s second war against ‘carthage’)
(‘roman mythographers’ reinvented her as a ‘trojan goddess’, and thus an ‘ancestral goddess’ of the ‘roman people’ by way of the trojan prince ‘aeneas’)
(with rome’s eventual hegemony over the ‘mediterranean world’, momanized forms of cybele’s cults spread throughout the ‘roman empire’)
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(the ‘meaning’ + ‘morality’ of her ‘cults’ + ‘priesthoods’ were topics of ‘debate’ + ‘dispute’ in ‘greek’ + ‘roman’ literature, and remain so in ‘modern scholarship’)
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