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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 ...
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.
The eunuch priests of the Mother Goddess were believed to be the only ones that would not be asphyxiated by the gases of the cave. [1] The hot springs were a major draw to city. [1] After the process of assimilation into Greek culture, it was associated with Hades (Pluton) and Persephone instead of Cybele and the temple was named Plutonium. [8]
Pluto's Gate, the ploutonion at Phrygian Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale in Turkey), was connected to the local cult of Cybele. Inhaling its vapors was said to be lethal to all living things except the Galli, the goddess's eunuch priests. [5] During the Roman Imperial era, the cult of Apollo subsumed existing religious sites there, including the ...
Rhea or Rheia (/ ˈ r iː ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ῥέα or Ῥεία [r̥ěː.aː]) is a mother goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Titan daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, himself a son of Gaia.
Mothers from hell: The 15 most terrifying movie moms. Christian Holub, Clark Collis, Kevin Jacobsen. October 1, 2024 at 10:32 AM. ... Her Other Mother form is creepy enough, but it gets taken to ...
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.
Hades is closely followed by Captain Hook from Peter Pan with a 53-year sentence, then Ursula from The Little Mermaid (50 years), Scar from The Lion King (48 years) then Jafar from Aladdin (47 years).