[permalink] [id link]
Cybele monument located at Akpınar on the northern flank of Mount Sipylus, at a distance of from Manisa on the road to Turgutlu is, along with the King of Mira rock relief at Mount Nif near Kemalpaşa and a number of cuneiform tablet records are among the principal evidence of extension of Hittite control and influence in western Anatolia based on local principalities.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Cybele and monument
Cybele monument by itself represents a step of innovation in Hittite art where full-faced figures in high relief are rare.
Cybele and located
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.
It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the belt ( see minor-planet groups ).
Cybele and at
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.
Archaeological finds at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia indicate worship of a ' Magna Mater ' figure, a forerunner of the Cybele goddess found in later Anatolia and other parts of the near East.
Cybele may have evolved from an Anatolian Mother Goddess of a type found at Çatalhöyük, dated to the 6000 BCE.
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 ".
The gigantic remains of such a figure at Mount Sipylus, though lacking inscriptions and much eroded, are consistent with later representations of a seated Cybele, with a supporting or attendant lion beneath each arm.
The eroded rock-statue of Cybele at Mount Sipylus, in an early 20th century France | French postcard
Like Dionysus, Cybele remained an essentially wild, foreign deity of distinctly un-Hellenic temperament, simultaneously embraced and " held at arms length " by the Greeks.
In one conjunction Rhea / Cybele, and his episodes are situated by the mythographers in Celaenae ( or Kelainai ) in Phrygia ( today, the town of Dinar in Turkey ), at the main source of the Meander ( the river Menderes ).
Only four of his works are mentioned: a statue of Zeus and one of Athena Itonia in the temple of that goddess at Athens ; a statue, probably of Cybele, in the temple of the Great Goddess at Athens ; and the Rhamnusian Nemesis.
The worship of Cybele was characteristic of Thrace, where it had spread from Asia Minor at a very early period.
Ovid and Servius suggest that Hippomenes forgot to pay the tribute to Aphrodite he had promised for helping him, and consequently, during the two's stay at Cybele's temple, Aphrodite caused them to have sex after going mad with lust, knowing that this would scorn Cybele, and this indeed resulted in Cybele ( or Zeus according to Hyginus ) transforming them into lions.
At Ennetach he is with Nymphs, at Faimingen with Hygieia and Cybele and at Grand with Sol.
* As paterfamilias of a large, wrangling and not always socially secure family at risk from accusations of impiety, Falco, who has little enough time for the Roman deities, let alone for foreign superstitions and cults, is somewhat prejudiced against Jews, Christians, followers of Cybele, and adherents of other barbarian religions.
By the height of the Empire, numerous international deities were cultivated at Rome and had been carried to even the most remote provinces, among them Cybele, Isis, Epona, and gods of solar monism such as Mithras and Sol Invictus, found as far north as Roman Britain.
By the height of the Empire, numerous international deities were cultivated at Rome and had been carried to even the most remote provinces, among them Cybele, Isis, Epona, and gods of solar monism such as Mithras and Sol Invictus, found as far north as Roman Britain.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica and Claudia Quinta were said to have received the image of Cybele at Ostia on her arrival in 204 BC.
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.
Under Roman influence, a variety of new cults were introduced: Mithras had a temple in the Altbachtal, Cybele and Attis were worshipped there and at Dhronecken, and inscriptions and artwork attest to other Oriental deities such as Sabazius, Isis and Serapis.
The later version of Cybele was established by a pupil of Phidias, the sculptor Agoracritus, and became the image most widely adopted by Cybele's expanding following, both in the Aegean world and at Rome.
This shadowy figure resided at Pessinus and attempted to marry his daughter to the young Attis in spite of the opposition of his lover Agdestis and his mother, the goddess Cybele.
Her identity became theologically intertwined also with the goddesses Fauna, Magna Mater (" Great Goddess ", referring to the Roman form of Cybele but also a cult title for Maia ), Ops, Juno, and Carna, as discussed at some length by the late antiquarian writer Macrobius.
Cybele and on
# the Tolistobogii on the west, round Pessinus as their chief town, sacred to Cybele, and
This may have been the source for the use of a tympanon in Cybele's rites ; in historical times, the resemblances between the two goddesses were so marked that some Greeks regarded Cybele as their own Rhea, who had deserted her original home on Mount Ida in Crete and fled to Mount Ida in the wilds of Phrygia to escape Cronus.
Rhea only appears in Greek art from the 4th century BC, when her iconography draws on that of Cybele ; the two are therefore often indistinguishable ; both can be shown on a throne flanked by lions or on a chariot drawn by two lions.
Her mythic connections to Dionysus are minimal and late, but both cults focused on the foreigner-deity's arrival in a chariot, drawn by exotic big cats – Dionysus by tigers, Cybele by lions.
Cybele was portrayed with Livia's face on cameos and statuary.
Oenone was a mountain nymph ( an oread ) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele, alternatively Rhea.
The goddess Victoria is related to Nike, Bellona, Magna Mater ( Great Mother ), Cybele, and Vacuna — goddesses who are often depicted on chariots.
Limits to Ice on Asteroids ( 24 ) Themis and ( 65 ) Cybele.
Pliny gives a list of his works ; among them a Rape of Persephone, Victory in a Quadriga, Apollo and Artemis, and Cybele seated on a Lion.
Rhea / Cybele riding on a lion, Andrasteia (?
Top center is the Earth goddess Cybele with a crown of stars and two lions on leashes.
Mural crown on Cybele ( silver tetradrachm issued by Smyrna, 160 – 150 BC )
Also on the western side of the church, the Pierre du Tauroble evokes the cult of Cybele and also the Great mother of the Gods of Mount Ida.
The abundant grey pottery ware found on the island and the worship of Cybele, the great mother-goddess of Anatolia, suggest the cultural continuity of the population from Neolithic times.
Cybele and Mount
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.
** Idaea, an epithet of Cybele, referring to Mount Ida, a center of her cult
A full faced statue of Cybele carved in rock, dated to the late-Hittite or Luwian period in late second millennium BCE, is found near Mount Sipylus, several kilometers east of Manisa.
Hittites | Hittite – Luwians | Luwian rock carving of Cybele in Mount Sipylus ( 13th century BC ).
The Mount Sipylus national park ( Spil Dağı Milli Parkı ) near the city of Manisa covers a richly forested area, hot springs, and the famous " crying rock " of Niobe, and a Hittite carving of the Goddess Cybele ( Mother Goddess ).
0.221 seconds.