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Cybele Flashcards

1
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Magna Mater

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Great Mother

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2
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Birth

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Bisexual Divinity Who Castrates Herself

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3
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Origin

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Phrygia

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Attis Origin

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Severed Male Genetalia Creates Almond Tree and Nana, the Daughter of the River-God Sangarios, Places Branch on Tree and Becomes Preggers

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5
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Attis Myth

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Cyeble Sees Attis and Falls in Love With Him, He Spurns Her Affections, Castrates Self Because Sybele Makes Him Go Mad, Dies, Attis Transformed into Flower and is Reborn Every Year in Spring

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Holding a Tympanum (Cowhide Drum)

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Stimulates the Growth of Crops, Fertility Connection

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Wears a Turreted Crown

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Protector of Cities/Citadels

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Chariot Drawn by Lions

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Power Over Nature as a Mistress of Wild Animals (Potina Theron)

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9
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Galli

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Eunuch Priests of Cybele - They Castrated Themselves in Submission to the Dominant Mother Goddess

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10
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Megalesia/Megalensia

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Roman Public Games in April of Each Year (4th-10th) to Commemorate the Arrival of Cybele’s Cult Images in 204 BCE (2nd Punic War)

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April Festival of Cybele Pt. 2

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Theatrical Performances in Front of the Palatine Temple, Chariot Races Held in the Circus Maximus, Took Cybele to Circus in Grand Procession, Metragyrtai (Probs Galli) Went From House to House For Money to Support Temple, Moretum Left at Cybele’s Temple

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12
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Metragyrtai

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“Beggars of the Mother”

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Moretum

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A Mixture of Cheese and Pounded Herbs

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14
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Castration?

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Until 1st C. CE, Roman Citizens Were Barred From Joining the Cult

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March 15th (1st Day of Spring Festival)

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Cannophori Bring Reeds into the Temple of Cybele (Attis Castrates Self With Reed Flute)

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16
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Cannophori

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“Reed Bearers”

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March 16th-21st

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Fasting and Abstinence From Sex

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March 22nd-23rd

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Dendrophori, Newly Cut Pine Tree is Adorned With Purple Ribbons, Flowers, and Image of Attis is Brought to Sacred Precinct, Lamenting of Death of Attis (Died Under a Tree)

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March 24th

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Dies Sanguinis, Self-Flagellation, Self-Castration, and Taurobolium (From 140 CE Onward)

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Dies Sanguinis

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“Day of Blood”

21
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Dendrophori

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“Tree-Bearers”

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March 25th

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Hillaria

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Day of Feasting, Carousing, and Merriment- Celebration of the Resurrection of Attis

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March 26th

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Day of Rest- Day of Recovery From Activities

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March 27th (Last Day of Spring Festival)

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Lavatio - the Bathing/Purifying of the Cult Statue of Cybele in the Almo River

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Lavatio

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“The Washing”

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