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Aug 28, 2020 · In Cybele’s story, she is found by Zeus and raped while sleeping in the form of a rock. Zeus’s rape is unsuccessful, and he spills his seed on the ground beside her. Cybele, given her hyper-fertility, becomes impregnated nonetheless, and births a hideous, dual-sex monster named Agdistis.
As Rome eventually established hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanized forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout Rome's empire. Greek and Roman writers debated and disputed the meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods, which remain controversial subjects in modern scholarship.
Cybele was the ancient Phrygian mother of the gods, and goddess of motherhood, fertility and the mountain wilds. Her orgiastic cult dominated the central and north-western regions of Anatolia and was introduced to Greece via the island of Samothrace and the Boeotian town of Thebes.
Aug 10, 2018 · Cybele and Attis is the story of the Phrygian great mother goddess Cybele's tragic love for the mortal Attis. It is also a story of self-mutilation and regeneration. When Cybele—one of Zeus' would-be lovers—rejected him, Zeus wouldn't take "no" for an answer.
Feb 4, 2015 · Followers of her cult would work themselves into an emotional frenzy and self-mutilate, symbolic of her lover's self-castration.
- Donald L. Wasson
Mar 18, 2019 · Cybele's followers worked themselves into orgiastic frenzies and then ritually castrated themselves. Today, Cybele has become the deity honored by a number of members of the transgender community, and an icon for many Pagan feminists.
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According to myth, Cybele discovered that her youthful lover Attis was unfaithful. In a jealous rage, she made him go mad and mutilate himself under a pine tree, where he bled to death. Regretting what she had done, Cybele mourned her loss.
