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Cybele's Secret (pronounced / ˈ s ɪ b əl iː / SIB-ə-lee) [1] is a 2007 young adult fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier. It follows the story of Paula who is accompanying her father to Istanbul to purchase a rare artifact of a lost pagan cult. [2] Cybele’s Secret is the companion book to Wildwood Dancing.
Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown.Roman marble, c. 50 AD.Getty Museum. Cybele (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl iː / SIB-ə-lee; [1] Phrygian: Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; [2] Lydian: Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybélē, Κυβήβη Kybēbē, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the ...
Michelangelo's rendering of the Erythraean Sibyl Tarquin the Proud receives the Sibylline books (1912 illustration). According to the Roman tradition, the oldest collection of Sibylline books appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
Articles relating to the goddess Cybele, 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. Phrygia's only known goddess, she was probably its national deity.
The chosen subject was from the history of the Cornelii, specifically the arrival of the goddess Cybele's image in Rome during the Second Punic War, as told in Ovid, Appian and Livy. Scipio Africanus had consulted the Sibylline Books and ordered that the image be brought from Mount Ida.
Ten Birds is a picture book written and illustrated by Cybèle Young and published in 2011. The children's fable is about ten birds trying to find a way to cross the river. . Using numbers and clever ways of thinking, the birds cross the river one at a ti
Dindymon [1] / ˈ d ɪ n d ə ˌ m ɒ n / (Ancient Greek: Δίνδυμον), was a mountain in eastern Phrygia (today's Murat Dağı of Gediz), later part of Galatia, that was later called Agdistis, sacred to the "mountain mother", Cybele, whom the Hellenes knew as Rhea. Strabo sited Dindymon above Pessinos, sacred to Cybele.
A number of temples to Cybele in Rome have been identified. Originally an Anatolian mother goddess , the cult of Cybele was formally brought to Rome during the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BCE) after a consultation with the Sibylline Books .