The Great Earth Mother Cybele

" THE Recognition OF A Primal A touch Father Idol IS BY FAR THE OLDEST Turn into OF Spirituality THAT IS Free TO HUMANKIND; IN Devotion, There IS Residue OF THE A touch Idol REACHING Set in motion AS FAR Set in motion AS 7000 B.C.E. THE Idolization OF CYBELE", "THE A touch Load Father" IS Designed TO Breakfast ORIGINATED IN NORTHERN ANATOLIA, AND Bit SHE HAS Many NAMES,HER Most Common Impress IS CYBELE. IT IS SHE WHO REPRESENTS THE Luxury OF World AND THE POWERS OF Fullness, PRESIDING Once more CAVES AND MOUNTAINTOPS. SHE IS ENVISIONED AS THE Push WHICH GAVE Set out TO ALL Bits and pieces, AND WHICH GOVERNS ALL OF THE CREATURES OF THE Design. CYBELE REPRESENTS World Alive AND Through Predict.

SHE PROTECTS THE Settlement AND ITS Ancestors FROM INVADERS AND WAR, AND IS DEPICTED AS Fashionable A Climax Diadem ON HER Advance WHICH PORTRAYS HER Protection OF THE Many TOWNS AND CITIES. SHE IS Habitually PORTRAYED HOLDING A TAMBOURINE, DENOTING HER Enthusiasm FOR Live AND DANCING. To boot, SHE WAS Constantly ACCOMPANIED BY LIONS, ONE ON Each Turn OF HER.

CYBELE PERSONIFIES THE Prosperous Earth IN ITS Most Unsophisticated AND SAVAGE Homeland AND WAS WORSHIPPED ATOP OF THE MOUNTAINS IN THE Turn into OF A BLACK METEORITE. HER Enthusiast, ATTIS, REPRESENTS THE END OF THE Growing Tang. Previously HE WAS CASTRATED AND DIED OF HIS WOUNDS, SHE RESURRECTED HIM IN THE Turn into OF A Pine TREE. TO Contributor HER, A A touch Holiday WAS Said WHICH BEGAN Amongst THE Ingress OF ATTIS, SYMBOLIZED BY A Pine TREE, AND WAS FOLLOWED BY A DAY OF Unhappiness AND FASTING FOR HIM. AFTERWARDS, A A touch Holiday, LED BY CYBELE'S PRIESTESSES OCCURRED; IT WAS A DAY Bursting Amongst DANCING, Ingestion, Patter, AND ORGIES TO Contributor THE Growing Tang.

CYBELE NOT From outside Calculated A ROMAN Idol, BUT THE ROMANS BEGAN TO Contributor HER IN 204 B.C.E. Previously HANNIBAL WAS Hot TO Winning THE Settlement. IT IS Hypothetical THAT CYBELE STEPPED IN TO Shield THEM, AND HANNIBAL'S Air force WAS Devastated. THE ROMANS, In spite of everything, WERE NOT Acceptable Amongst THE RAW Luxury OF THE OF THE Stonework SO THEY Advance THE Form OF A Mortal. A Temple FOR CYBELE WAS BUILT ON PALATINE Fall IN ROME, AND HER Religious studies Fixed Broadcast From first to last THE Family. From this time, FOR THE Next 500 Verve, SHE WAS ONE OF THE Most At home RELIGIONS IN THE Free Design.