Cybele is an important foreign goddess. She is also known as the great Mother. She rules fertiliity, healing, and nature. Her cult is from Asia minor and was brought to Rome when a prophet warned that the Romans would lose the Carthaginian wars without Cybele's help.
In Greek mythology the primal goddess of nature is Physis; however, there are many other goddesses of nature, such as Gaia (Earth), Cybele and Rhea (mountains), Demeter (harvest/farming), Persephone (spring), and Artemis (wilderness). The Horae were seasonal goddesses as well.
Cybele the Phrygian goddess is known by such titles as "Great Mother" and "Earth Mother" and "Mountain Mother".
Opis/Ops (Roman goddess) = Rhea/ Cybele/ Cybebe (known to the Phrygians as Mater Kubileya)
Demeter, in Greek Mythology, is the Goddess of nature, fertility of the Earth, the seasons, and harvests.
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Cybele i believe
Nature and Fertility. She presided over mountains and fortresses
Midas, Korybas, Sabazius/Dionysus, Alce, and Nicaea.
Cybele or Kybele was a Phrygian goddess (Asia Minor).
Cybele is usually told to be the daughter of Zeus and Gaea: thus any child of one or both could be a half sister/sibling.
Cybele is an important foreign goddess. She is also known as the great Mother. She rules fertiliity, healing, and nature. Her cult is from Asia minor and was brought to Rome when a prophet warned that the Romans would lose the Carthaginian wars without Cybele's help.
she was a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals (especially lions and bees).
Cybele, also known as Magna Mater, belonged to the ancient Phrygian culture. She was the central goddess of the Phrygian pantheon and later became prominent in the Roman Empire as well. Cybele was associated with fertility, nature, and the protection of cities.
In Greek mythology the primal goddess of nature is Physis; however, there are many other goddesses of nature, such as Gaia (Earth), Cybele and Rhea (mountains), Demeter (harvest/farming), Persephone (spring), and Artemis (wilderness). The Horae were seasonal goddesses as well.
Cybele the Phrygian goddess is known by such titles as "Great Mother" and "Earth Mother" and "Mountain Mother".
Edgar Bowden has written: 'Cybele the axe-goddess' -- subject(s): Achaeans, Aegean Civilization, Axes, Cult, Cybele (Goddess), Horses, Indo-Europeans, Inscriptions, Linear B., Mother goddesses, Mythology, Phaistos Disk