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👤 Cybele

  • Alternative names:
    Alce Dindymene Mother of the gods
  • Information:
    'Mother of the Gods'
  • Possibly the same as:
    👥 the Mothers
  • Sometimes conflated with:
    👤 Rhea
  • Has children with:
    👤 Hyperion (Titan)
  • Cult sites:
    🌍 Acriai (Laconia) 🌍 Anagyrous (Attica) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Magnesia on the Maiandros (Asia Minor)🌍 Marpessos (Troad) 🌍 Megalopolis (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Patrai (Achaia) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Rock Coddinos (Lydia) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 the Acrocorinth (Corinth) 🌍 the Sanctuary at Samothrace 🌍 the Sanctuary of Cybele (Pessinous)🌍 the Sanctuary of Despoina (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Cabeiroi (Thebes)🏛️ the Steunos Cave (Phrygia)🏛️ the Temple of the Idaian Mother (Cyzicos)
  • Depictions:
    🌍 Messene (Messenia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Asclepios (Titane) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia)
  • Related Entities:
    🌍 Acriai (Laconia) 🌍 Anagyrous (Attica) 🌍 Asea (Arcadia) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Magnesia ad Sipylum (Lydia) 🌍 Magnesia on the Maiandros (Asia Minor)🌍 Marpessos (Troad) 🌍 Megalopolis (Arcadia) 🌍 Messene (Messenia) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia) 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Patrai (Achaia) 🌍 Pessinous (Phrygia) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 River Maiandros (Caria) 🌍 River Sagaris (Phrygia) 🌍 Rock Coddinos (Lydia) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 the Acrocorinth (Corinth) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Asclepios (Titane) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Cybele (Pessinous)🌍 the Sanctuary of Despoina (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Cabeiroi (Thebes)🏛️ the Steunos Cave (Phrygia)🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Temple of the Idaian Mother (Cyzicos)👤 Agon 👤 Aineias 👤 Alexanor 👤 Anaxibia (Lydian) 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Archelaos (Lydian) 👤 Ares 👤 Artemis 👤 Asclepios 👤 Atalante 👤 Attis 👤 Berecynthos 👤 Broteas 👤 Coronis (Thessalian) 👤 Creousa (Trojan) 👤 Dindyme 👤 Dionysos 👤 Euamerion 👤 Hades 👤 Hecate (goddess) 👤 Helios 👤 Hera 👤 Hermes 👤 Hippomenes (h. of Atalante) 👤 Hygieia 👤 Isis 👤 Maiandros (eponym) 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Persephone 👤 Rhea 👤 Sabazios 👤 Sagaris 👤 Sarapis 👤 Sister of Maiandros (name unknown) 👤 Zeus 👥 the Cabeiroi 👥 the Charites 👥 the Corybantes 👥 the Couretes (guardians) 👥 the Dactyloi 👥 the Moirai 👥 the Satyrs
  • Appears in:
    📜 Danais fr. 3 West📜 Homeric Hymn 14 to the Mother of the Gods 1-6📜 Ovid, Ibis 455-456📜 Ovid, Ibis 457-458📜 Ovid, Ibis 507-508📜 Pausanias 1.3.5📜 Pausanias 1.31.1📜 Pausanias 10.12.3-10.12.4📜 Pausanias 10.25.9-10.26.2📜 Pausanias 10.32.3📜 Pausanias 2.11.5-2.11.8📜 Pausanias 2.4.6-2.4.7📜 Pausanias 3.12.9📜 Pausanias 3.22.4📜 Pausanias 4.31.6📜 Pausanias 5.13.7📜 Pausanias 5.14.4-5.14.10📜 Pausanias 5.20.2-5.20.3📜 Pausanias 5.20.9📜 Pausanias 7.17.9-7.17.12📜 Pausanias 7.20.3📜 Pausanias 8.30.4📜 Pausanias 8.37.2📜 Pausanias 8.44.3📜 Pausanias 9.25.3📜 Pausanias 9.25.5-9.25.10📜 Pindar, Pythian 3 77-115📜 Pindar fr. 70b Snell-Maehler📜 Pindar fr. 95 Snell-Maehler📜 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 10📜 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 12📜 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 9📜 Strabo 10.3.12📜 Strabo 10.3.13📜 Strabo 10.3.15📜 Strabo 10.3.22📜 Strabo 14.1.40
  • Mentioned in Text:
    Danais Homeric Hymn 14 to the Mother of the GodsOvid, IbisPausaniasPindar, Pythian 3PindarPs-Plutarch, On RiversStrabo
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