Cybele – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Cybele
n.
mythical goddess of Phrygia, goddess of nature and fertility
Cybele
Cybele (;
Phrygian:
Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "
Kubeleyan Mother", perhaps "
Mountain Mother";
Lydian Kuvava;
Kybele,
Kybebe,
Kybelis) was an originally
Anatolian mother goddess; she has a possible precursor in the earliest neolithic at
Çatalhöyük, where the statue of a pregnant, seated goddess was found in a granary. She is
Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably its state deity. Her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of
Asia Minor and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant
western colonies from around the 6th century BCE.
Cybele
Noun
1. great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops
(synonym) Dindymene, Great Mother, Magna Mater, Mater Turrita
(hypernym) Phrygian deity
Cybele
[Other] Also known as Kybele and Magna Mater and the Mother of the Gods, the worship of this goddess spread throughout the Roman Empire. Originally Phrygian, she was a goddess of caverns, of the Earth in its primitive state; worshipped on mountain tops. She ruled over wild beasts, and was also a bee goddess. Her festival came first on the Roman calender. Along with her consort, the vegitation god Attis, Cybele was worshipped in wild, emotional, bloody, orgiastic, cathartic ceremonies. Cybele was the goddess of nature and fertility. Because Cybele presided over mountains and fortresses, her crown was in the form of a city wall. The cult of Cybele was directed by eunuch priests called Corybantes, who led the faithful in orgiastic rites accompanied by wild cries and the frenzied music of flutes, drums, and cymbals. Her annual spring festival celebrated the death and resurrection of her beloved Attis. Her Greek mythology counterpart was Rhea.
Cybele
Cybele Kybele (Greek) A Phrygian goddess of caves and mountains, vines and agriculture, and town life, first worshiped at Pessinus; later throughout
Asia Minor and in Greece. The equivalent in Phrygia and Crete of Rhea, the Magna Mater (great mother), wife of Kronos and mother of Zeus. Her worship was celebrated exoterically, especially in later degenerate times, by wild dances by her votaries. In one of her phases Cybele was closely connected with the moon and its extremely recondite functions. The moon is at once a sexless potency, to be well studied because to be dreaded, and a female deity for exoteric purposes. Cybele is "the personification and type of the vital essence, whose source was located by the ancients between the Earth and the starry sky, and who was regarded as the very
fons vitae of all that lives and breathes" (BCW 12:214). The breath of Cybele, equivalent in its highest substance to akasa-tattva -- "is the one chief agent, and it underlays the so-called 'miracles' and 'supernatural' phenomena in all ages, as in every clime" (BCW 12:215).
See also CORYBANTES ;
CURETES
