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Magna Mater (Cybele)

the Great Mother

also: Cybele, Idaean Mother, Mother of the Gods

The Anatolian mother-goddess Cybele, identified with the Earth. Lucretius retells her cult—the lions, the mural crown, the Phrygian rites—as an allegory of the earth, then insists the gods take no part in the world.

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On the Nature of Things poetry · 2 mentions

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