See also:

• CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn)

CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn)  , a goddess native to See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor and worshipped by most of the peoples of the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula, was known to the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans most commonly as the See also:

• GREAT

GREAT See also:

• MOTHER

MOTHER OF THE GODS (q.v.), or the Great Idaean Mother of the Gods—Magna Deum Mater, Mater Deum Magna Idaea . She was known by many other names, such as Mater Idaea, Dindymene, Sipylene, derived from famous seats of See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship, and See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain Mother; &c., in token of her See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, but See also:

• CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn)

Cybele is the name by which she is most frequently known in literature . Her cult became centralized in See also:

• PHRYGIA

Phrygia, had found its way into See also:

• GREECE

Greece, where it never flourished greatly, as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as the latter 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C., and was introduced at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in 204 B.C . Under the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire it attained to great importance, and was one of the last See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan cults to See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die . Cybele was usually worshipped in connexion with See also:

• ATTIS

Attis (q.v.), as See also:

• APHRODITE

Aphrodite with See also:

• ADONIS

Adonis, the two being a duality interpreted by the philosophers as symbolic of Mother See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

Earth and her vegetation . (G .