Cybele

Phrygian Mountain Mother (Matar Kubileya); shown at rock-cut shrines (Midas City, Arslankaya) with lions, hawk, tympanon and polos; later the Roman Magna Mater.

Children

• Sabazios

Domains

• mother goddess
• mountains and wild animals

Powers

• Master the wild and its beasts from a lion throne
• Defend cities and fortresses as Mother of the Gods

Epithets

• Matar Kubileya
• Μήτηρ Μεγάλη
• Magna Mater

Relations

• equated with: Agdistis
• lover: Attis
• interpretatio: Rhea
• equated with: Kufaws

Sources

• Roller, In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (1999)