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- She commands the forces of nature, able to bestow life or withhold it, just as the earth can be both bountiful and barren. Her connection to wildlife and the untamed aspects of the world grants her a wild, unpredictable power, echoing the untamable essence of nature itself.
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Cybele controlled every aspect of life on Earth, from plants to animals to men. All fertility was her under control and people in Anatolia, who had a profound respect for nature, believed Cybele also had the power to spare mankind from the sometime destructive cycles of nature.
Roman mythographers reinvented her as a Trojan goddess, and thus an ancestral goddess of the Roman people by way of the Trojan prince Aeneas. As Rome eventually established hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanized forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout Rome's empire.
Feb 4, 2015 · Regaining her own sanity, the remorseful Cybele appealed to Zeus to never allow Attis's corpse to decay. Myth claims that he would return to life during the yearly rebirth of vegetation; thus identifying Attis as an early dying-and-reviving god figure.
- Donald L. Wasson
She commands the forces of nature, able to bestow life or withhold it, just as the earth can be both bountiful and barren. Her connection to wildlife and the untamed aspects of the world grants her a wild, unpredictable power, echoing the untamable essence of nature itself.
Mar 18, 2019 · Thanks to the resurrection story of Attis, Cybele came to be associated with the endless cycle of life, death and rebirth. Cybele's followers worked themselves into orgiastic frenzies and then ritually castrated themselves.
- Patti Wigington
Sep 27, 2023 · Cybele (“Cybebe” in Lydian) was the great mother goddess of Phrygia, in Anatolia. A goddess of fertility, nature, healing, prophecy, and city protection, Cybele was worshipped throughout the ancient world, often in association with her consort Attis.
Cybele was the fertility goddess of Phrygia, an ancient country of Asia Minor*. In Greek and Roman mythology, Cybele personified Mother Earth and was worshiped as the Great Mother of the Gods. She was also associated with forests, mountains, and nature.
