4/12/2024 0 Comments Quintile astrology meaningTo me Cybele is a sabre-toothed Ceres on steroids… with claws. “ Her associations with hawks, lions, and the very stone of the wild, mountainous Anatolian landscape, suggest her as mother of the land and its wild, untrammelled nature, with power to dominate, moderate or soften its latent ferocity, and control its potential threats to a settled, civilised life.” Ceres On Steroids The Romans reinvented Cybele as a Trojan goddess, but her true meaning, her mystery and the manner of her worship is hotly debated to this day. She is quite the paradox then, chiefly known from being this fertile, earth Goddess, but evidently not having much chance of having children from her dismembered partner. ![]() ![]() In some parts of Greece she was absorbed into other earth goddesses Gaia, Rhea and Demeter.Ĭybele was famed for her entourage of transgender and eunuch priests and her consort was a castrated Shepard, name of Attis. She is the goddess of mountains and lions. Cybele was originally an ancient Anatolian (Asia Minor) mother goddess who was then assimilated by the Greeks. Cybele is an earth mother goddess with a twist, she is a rather colourful character depicted as an exotic foreigner arriving on a chariot drawn by roaring lions and escorted by drunken, ecstatic revelers playing wild music.
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