Cybele

female Titan in Greek mythology, mother of Zeus and mother of Hera

thumb|270px|A 15th century Ottoman Empire|Ottoman medical illustration by [[Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin depicting an operation for castration]]

Greek mythical siblings

thumb|King Midas on a red-figure stamnos from Chiusi around 440 BC, British Museum

Cybele ( ; 'Kubeleya Mother', perhaps 'Mountain Mother'; ; Kybélē, Kybēbē, Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. Greek colonists in Asia Minor adopted and adapted her Phrygian cult and spread it to mainland Greece and to the more distant western Greek colonies around the sixth century BC.

thumb|Statue of a reclining Attis at the Shrine of Attis in Ostia Antica near [[Rome.]]

King of Pergamon, reigned 241–197 BC

mountain in Turkey

According to Greek mythology, the Korybantes (; ), also spelled Corybantes or Corybants, were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia.

archaic mythical race of male beings associated with Rhea, the Great Mother

thumb|Phrygia#Culture|Phrygian statue of Cybele/Agdistis from the mid-6th century BC at or near [[Hattusa|upright=1.2]] Agdistis () is a deity of Greek, Roman, and Anatolian mythology who was a hermaphrodite, having been born with both male and female reproductive organs. The deity was closely associated with the Phrygian goddess Cybele.

thumb|200px|Relief of an archigallus making sacrifices to Cybele and Attis, Museo Archeologico Ostiense, [[Ostia Antica]]

thumb|Taurobolium, or Consecration of the Priests of Cybele under Antoninus Pius. Engraving by Bernhard Rode c.1780 thumb|upright=1.5|Three sides of a taurobolium altar showing bucrania and a sacrificial knife, with a dedication to the Great Idaean Mother of the Gods, from [[Lugdunum (Lyon)]] In the Roman Empire of the second to fourth centuries, taurobolium referred to practices involving the sacrifice of a bull, which after mid-second century became connected with the worship of Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods. Though not previously limited to her cult, after AD 159 all private taurobol

Ancient Roman conusl

In Greek mythology, Broteas (Ancient Greek: Βροτέας), a hunter, was the son of Tantalus (by Dione, Euryanassa or Eurythemista), whose other offspring were Niobe and Pelops.

monumental fountain in Madrid

Shub-Niggurath is a fictional deity created by H. P. Lovecraft. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". The only other name by which Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story The Whisperer in Darkness.

Ancient Cappadocia and Pontus goddess

thumb|right|upright|Medical examination photo of Gordon (slave)|Gordon showing his scourged back, widely distributed by Abolitionists to expose the brutality of slavery. A scourge is a whip or lash, especially a multi-thong type, used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification. It is usually made of leather.

name of two sacred mountains in Greek mythology

tragédie en musique (early French opera) by Jean-Baptiste Lully

daughter of the Phrygian river-god Sangarius in Greek mythology

type of frame drum or tambourine

public fountain in Mexico City

Phrygian river-god of Greek mythology, son of Oceanus and Tethys

The Hilaria (; Latin "the cheerful ones", a term derived from the borrowed adjective "cheerful, merry") were ancient Roman religious festivals celebrated on the March equinox to honor Cybele.

Sumerian goddess

ancient Roman festival

Dindymon (), was a mountain in eastern Phrygia (today's Murat Dağı of Gediz), later part of Galatia, that was later called Agdistis, sacred to the "mountain mother", Cybele, whom the Hellenes knew as Rhea. Strabo sited Dindymon above Pessinos, sacred to Cybele. It was an important location in Greek mythology.