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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 ...
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.
Relief of an Archigallus making sacrifices to Cybele and Attis, Museo Archeologico Ostiense, Ostia Antica A gallus (pl. galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome) and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome.
The office as introduced when the cult of Cybele was officially introduced in Rome in 204 BC. The Priestess of Cybele served alongside a male priest of Cybele as the two leaders of the cult; together, they supervised the galli , the assistants, who performed other tasks around the liturgy, such as providing the holy music.
The Temple of Cybele or Temple of Magna Mater was Rome's first and most important temple to the Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), who was known to the Greeks as Cybele. It was built to house a particular image or form of the goddess, a meteoric stone brought from Greek Asia Minor to Rome in 204 BC at the behest of an oracle and temporarily housed ...
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.
Cybele's image was placed within the Temple of Victory on the Palatine. In honour of Cybele a lectisternium was performed and her games, the Megalesia, were held. [10] The image of Cybele was moved to the Temple of the Magna Mater in 191 BC when the temple was dedicated by Marcus Junius Brutus in the consulship of Publius Cornelius Scipio ...
According to ancient tradition, Pessinus was the principal cult centre of the goddess Cybele, the Phrygian Meter ("Mother"). Tradition situates the cult of Cybele in the early Phrygian period (8th century BC) and associates the erection of her first "costly" temple and even the founding of the city with king Midas (738-696 BC?). However, the ...