Cybele
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Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. Greek colonists in Asia Minor adopted and adapted her Phrygian cult and spread it to
Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown. Roman marble, c. 50 AD. Getty Museum
Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, flanked by large felines as arm-rests, c. 6,000 BC
Seated Cybele within a naiskos (4th century BC, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens)
Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike and drawn by lions toward a votive sacrifice (right); above are heavenly symbols including a solar deity, Plaque from Ai Khanoum, Bactria (Afghanistan), 2nd century BC; Gilded silver, ⌀ 25 cm
Rhea (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Rhea, Rhia or Rheia was one of the Titans, the children of Uranus and Gaia. She was the sister and wife of Cronus, and by him was the mother of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseid
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…In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She became partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia, of her possibly Minoan equivalent Rhea, and of the harvest–mother goddess Demeter. Some city-states, notably Athens, evoked her as a protector, but her most celebrated Greek rites and…
Rhea hands the swaddled stone to Cronus, 2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums
Rhea (left) on the Pergamon Altar (2nd century BC)