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The Temple of Cybele is a Hellenistic temple in Balchik, Bulgaria, which was discovered in 2007, during construction work on a new hotel. [1] The building has an area of 93.5 m 2 (1,006 sq ft) and dates back to the period 280-260 BC. It was burnt down by the Goths during an invasion of the region in 378 AD and never restored.
Temple of Cybele (Palatine) Temple of Cybele, Balchik; Temples of Cybele in Rome This page was last edited on 18 October 2018, at 13:17 (UTC). ...
Temple of Svarozhich's Fire (Russian: Храм Огня Сварожича) of the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities, Krasotinka village, Kaluga Oblast [20]House of Purification/Archie Diete (Yakut: Арчы Дьиэтэ, romanized: Archie Diete), Tengrist "Aiyy Faith" temple (2002), Yakutsk, Yakutia, taken away by the local authorities [21] [22]
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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 ...
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 4th-century scholar Servius notes in his commentary to Vergil's Aeneid that "there were seven tokens (pignora) which maintain Roman rule (imperium Romanum)," and gives the following list: [4] the needle of the Mother of the Gods (Acus Matris Deum), kept in the Temple of Cybele on the Palatine Hill.; [5]
A shrine was located on the right bank of the River Tiber, near the racecourse of Caligula (Gaianum), known from several inscriptions on fragmentary marble altars, [9] dating from 305 to 390 CE, all but one of which were found under the façade of S. Peter's in 1609. [10]