• Thumbnail for Cybele
    and wild animals, especially lions. In Rome, Cybele became known as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"). The Roman state adopted and developed a particular...
    77 KB (10,339 words) - 04:33, 24 April 2024
  • Magna Mater is a Latin name for the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele. Magna Mater may also refer to: Isis, a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt...
    411 bytes (84 words) - 20:35, 12 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of Roman deities
    Mater (Mother Earth) and the Mater Larum (Mother of the Lares). Vesta, a goddess of chastity usually conceived of as a virgin, was honored as Mater....
    46 KB (5,152 words) - 14:16, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceres (mythology)
    senators imported cult to the Greek goddess Cybele and established her as Magna Mater (The Great Mother) within Rome's sacred boundary, facing the Aventine...
    60 KB (7,803 words) - 11:04, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galli
    gallus (pl. galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome) and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the...
    18 KB (2,296 words) - 04:22, 20 February 2024
  • The Sanctuary of Isis and the Magna Mater was a sanctuary in Mainz, dedicated to Isis and Magna Mater. The temple was founded during the 1st century and...
    7 KB (1,083 words) - 11:50, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ides of March
    discovered by shepherds or the goddess Cybele, who was also known as the Magna Mater ("Great Mother") (narratives differ). A week later, on 22 March, the...
    14 KB (1,519 words) - 10:27, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attalus I
    a foreigner were to make war on Italy, he could be defeated if the Mater Deum Magna Idaea, the Great Mother Goddess, was brought to Rome. Additionally...
    44 KB (5,499 words) - 22:55, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Temple of Cybele (Palatine)
    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...
    6 KB (730 words) - 12:46, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taurobolium
    her cult, after AD 159 all private taurobolia inscriptions mention the Magna Mater. Originating in Asia Minor, its earliest attested performance in Italy...
    10 KB (1,388 words) - 15:35, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhea (mythology)
    mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses. The Romans identified her with Magna Mater (their form of Cybele), and the Goddess Ops. Some ancient etymologists...
    42 KB (4,117 words) - 17:56, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quinta Claudia
    Hannibal. Accounts of Cybele's arrival and her transformation into Rome's Magna Mater were embellished over time with circumstantial details, and formed part...
    6 KB (692 words) - 02:54, 12 February 2024
  • also an epithet of Cybele. The Romans knew Cybele as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), or as Magna Mater deorum Idaea ("great Idaean mother of the gods"), equivalent...
    6 KB (709 words) - 00:09, 25 January 2024
  • related to Andarta. The goddess Victoria is related to Nike, Bellona, Magna Mater (Great Mother), Cybele, and Vacuna—goddesses who are often depicted on...
    3 KB (332 words) - 17:23, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attis
    the Magna Mater, while the original was moved to the Vatican Museums. A marble bas-relief depicting Cybele in her chariot and Attis, from Magna Graecia...
    17 KB (1,799 words) - 19:43, 5 April 2024
  • (possibly here syncretised with Magna Mater) in Ostia Antica. It is to be found on the east side of the "Campo di Magna Mater" (Regio IV, Insula THE, n. 4)...
    3 KB (173 words) - 12:45, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Venus (mythology)
    "Syrian Goddess", understood as a late equivalent to Astarte, or the Roman Magna Mater, the latter being another supposedly Trojan "Mother of the Romans", as...
    72 KB (8,623 words) - 06:33, 16 April 2024
  • Julian the Chaldean or Julian the Theurgist) suggests in his Hymn to the Magna Mater that he was an initiate of the God of the Seven Rays, and was an adept...
    12 KB (1,618 words) - 23:22, 5 July 2023
  • The Vaticanum was also the site of the Phrygianum, a temple of the Magna Mater goddess Cybele. Although secondary to this deity's main worship on the...
    10 KB (1,241 words) - 02:35, 29 March 2024
  • Nammu, Sumerian creation goddess. Cybele, Roman goddess with the title Magna Mater (Latin for "Great Mother") Đạo Mẫu, in Vietnamese tradition Maia (mythology)...
    1 KB (175 words) - 16:51, 27 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Religion in ancient Rome
    of Rome's most prominent deities had both public and mystery rites. Magna Mater, conscripted to help Rome defeat Carthage in the second Punic War, arrived...
    142 KB (19,091 words) - 12:12, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eunuch
    Archaeological finds at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia indicate worship of a 'Magna Mater' figure, a forerunner of the goddess Cybele found in later Anatolia and...
    78 KB (9,652 words) - 11:14, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Rats in the Walls
    real-world Bolton, Massachusetts. Later Mythos writers have suggested the Magna Mater ("Great Mother") worshipped by the Exham cult was Shub-Niggurath (though...
    19 KB (2,809 words) - 23:05, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caelus
    cuirass. (These two figures have also been identified as Saturn and the Magna Mater, to represent the new Saturnian "Golden Age" of Augustan ideology.) On...
    17 KB (2,153 words) - 16:51, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Temple of Juno Sospita (Palatine)
    It was probably a term for a small shrine adjoining the Temple of the Magna Mater (recorded by Ovid), parts of which remain in Augustan-era opus reticulatum...
    2 KB (168 words) - 12:39, 11 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Nova Roma
    Saturnalia. In 2006, Margot Adler noted the organization's plan to restore a Magna Mater shrine in Rome. Nova Roma holds its own local and international conventions...
    24 KB (2,288 words) - 12:42, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lupercal
    of the Palatine Hill in Rome, located somewhere between the temple of Magna Mater and the Sant'Anastasia al Palatino. In the legend of the founding of...
    7 KB (552 words) - 05:50, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sibylline Books
    superintendence of the worship of Apollo, of the "Great Mother" Cybele or Magna Mater, and of Ceres, which had been introduced upon recommendations as interpreted...
    16 KB (2,330 words) - 20:36, 22 March 2024
  • oaths, and curse formulas. The Earth Mother Goddess or Great Mother (Magna Mater) is simply referred to as Dhé or definite Dheu, "Earth" or "The Earth"...
    28 KB (3,641 words) - 17:02, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interpretatio graeca
    Khnum El (Elus) Time, generation, dissolution, agriculture Cybele Magna Mater Magna Mater: lit. Great Mother Demeter Ceres Zerene Isis Ashi grains, agricultural...
    34 KB (2,174 words) - 13:49, 25 April 2024