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CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn) , a goddess native to See also: Asia Minor and worshipped by most of the peoples of the peninsula, was known to the See also: Romans most commonly as the See also: GREAT See also: MOTHER OF THE GODS (q.v.), or the Great Idaean Mother of the Gods—Magna Deum Mater, Mater Deum Magna Idaea
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She was known by many other names, such as Mater Idaea, Dindymene, Sipylene, derived from famous seats of worship, and See also: Mountain Mother; &c., in token of her character, but Cybele is the name by which she is most frequently known in literature
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Her cult became centralized in See also: Phrygia, had found its way into See also: Greece, where it never flourished greatly, as early as the latter 6th century B.C., and was introduced at See also: Rome in 204 B.C
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Under the See also: Empire it attained to great importance, and was one of the last See also: pagan cults to die
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Cybele was usually worshipped in connexion with See also: Attis (q.v.), as See also: Aphrodite with See also: Adonis, the two being a duality interpreted by the philosophers as symbolic of Mother See also: Earth and her vegetation
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