Gold was perhaps not the only metallic source of Midas ' riches: " King Midas, a Phrygian, son of Cybele, first discovered black and white lead ".

For many Romans, Egyptian Isis was an aspect of Phrygian Cybele, whose orgiastic rites were long-naturalized at Rome, indeed, she was known as Isis of Ten Thousand Names.

* Emperor Elagabalus, age 15, is initiated into the worship of the Phrygian gods Cybele and Attis.

The Phrygian goddess Cybele would then be the counterpart of the Hurrian goddess Hebat.

In Homer, Rhea is the mother of the gods, though not a universal mother like Cybele, the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified.

In the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, the fusion of Rhea and Phrygian Cybele is complete.

The Corybantes (; ) were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing.

Cybele ( Phrygian: Matar Kubileya / Kubeleya " Kubeleyan Mother ", perhaps " Mountain Mother "; Lydian Kuvava ; Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis ), was an originally Anatolian mother goddess.

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

Walter Burkert places Cybele ( as Meter ) among the " foreign gods " of Greek Religion, where she " presents a complex picture insofar as an indigenous, Minoan-Mycenean tradition is here intertwined with a cult taken over directly from the Phrygian kingdom of Asia Minor ".

* Cult of Cybele: Ancient Greek & Phrygian religion, Theoi Project

Agdistis () was a deity of Greek, Roman and Anatolian mythology, possessing both male and female sexual organs, connected with the Phrygian worship of Attis and Cybele.

In the post-Hittite Phrygian period she was called Kubele ( Latin Cybele ), Great Mother of the Gods.

Galli ) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome.

In some accounts, Gordias and the Phrygian goddess Cybele adopted Midas.

She was sometimes called " Adrasteia ", probably meaning " one from whom there is no escape "; her epithet Erinys (" implacable ") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele.

The " Phrygian rites " Strabo mentioned referred to the cult of Cybele that was also welcomed to Athens in the 5th century.

Attis () was the consort of Cybele in Phrygian and Greek mythology.

An aspect of the compromise religious settlement, similar to the other such mythic adjustments throughout Aegean culture, can be read in the later Phrygian King Gordias ' adoption " with Cybele " of Midas.

A major shrine of the Phrygian goddess Cybele was built in nearby Vienne, and she also seems to have found special favor in Lugdunum in the late 1st century and 2nd century.

It is thence plausible that an older temple of Juno Sospita existed in Rome within the pomerium, as Ovid says it was located near the temple of the Phrygian Mother ( Cybele ), which stood on the western corner of the Palatine.

The Phrygian goddess Cybele with her attributes

Marsyas, the satyr who first formed the instrument using the hollowed antler of a stag, was a Phrygian follower of Cybele.

Acting as the visible representative of Cybele, and under her authority, it would seem, a Phrygian king could designate his successor.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

The Kuretes were the nine dancers who venerate Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele, Mother of the Gods.

In Rome, Cybele was known as Magna Mater (" Great Mother ").

Cybele may have evolved from an Anatolian Mother Goddess of a type found at Çatalhöyük, dated to the 6000 BCE.

A year after the import of the ritus cereris, patrician senators imported cult to the Greek goddess Cybele and established her as Magna Mater ( The Great Mother ) within Rome's sacred boundary, facing the Aventine Hill.

Oenone was a mountain nymph ( an oread ) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele, alternatively Rhea.

Idaeus gave his name to the Idaean mountains, that is Mount Ida, where he built a temple to the Mother of the Gods ( that is to Cybele ) and instituted mysteries and ceremonies still observed in Phrygia in Dionysius's time.

The goddess Victoria is related to Nike, Bellona, Magna Mater ( Great Mother ), Cybele, and Vacuna — goddesses who are often depicted on chariots.

The crowned woman has variously been identified as Pope Joan ( a woman who according to a medieval and later Protestant myth had disguised herself as a man and been elected pope ; some cards also show a child, and the Pope Joan myth pictured her as found out when she gave birth during a papal procession ), as Mary, Mother of God, or even as Cybele, as Isis, or as Venus.

The depiction of some goddesses such as the Magna Mater ( Great Mother, or Cybele ) as " tower-crowned " represents their capacity to preserve the city.

The mountain was personified as a daemon, whom foreigners associated with the Great Mother Cybele.

Attis is said to have introduced to Lydia the cult of the Mother Goddess Cybele, incurring the jealousy of Zeus, who sent a boar to destroy the Lydian crops.

Many religions that were not part of Rome's earliest state religion offered leadership roles as priests for women, among them the imported cult of Isis and of the Magna Mater (" Great Mother ", or Cybele ).

* Great Mother, translation of Latin Magna Mater, Roman title of the goddess Cybele

In particular, the keepers of the Sibylline Books had the superintendence of the worship of Apollo, of the " Great Mother " Cybele or Magna Mater, and of Ceres, which had been introduced upon recommendations as interpreted from the Sibylline Books.

A number of Lydian religious concepts may well go back to the Early Bronze Age and even Late Stone Age, such as the vegetation goddess Kore, the snake and bull cult, the thunder and rain god and the double-axe ( Labrys ) as a sign of thunder, the mountain mother goddess ( Mother of Gods ) assisted by lions, associable or not to the more debated Kuvava ( Cybele ).

Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called Mater Idaea (" Idaean Mother "), while Rhea, often identified with Cybele, put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete.