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Noun:

साइबेली,

cybele's Usage Examples:

On the banks of the Pactolus two columns of a temple of the Greek period, probably the great temple of Cybele, are still standing.

Ramsay, "Sipylos and Cybele," in Journal of Hellenic Studies, iii.

It is to be distinguished from an archaic figure still visible, carved in the northern side of the mountain near Magnesia, to which tradition has given the name of Niobe, but which is really intended for Cybele.

Both were happy at the result; but forgetting to thank the goddess for the apples, they were led by her to a religious crime, and were transformed into lions by the goddess Cybele (Ovid, Metam.

The priests of Cybele, or archigalli, submitted to the discipline in the temple of the goddess (Plutarch, Adv.

His worship was closely connected with that of the great mother Cybele and of Attis.

To the south-west of the conspicuous temple alluded to are the remains of a temple of Cybele, with a portico.

Later we find the worship of Isis and of Cybele,the latter being especially flourishing, with large corporations of dendrophori (priests who carried branches of trees in procession) and cannofori (basketcarriers); the worship of Mithras, too, had a large number of followers.

Marsyas, as well as Midas and Silenus, are associated in legend with Dionysus and belong to the cycle of legends of Cybele.

He represents the art of playing the flute as opposed to the lyre - the one the accompaniment of the worship of Cybele, the other that of the worship of Apollo.

cybele's Meaning':

great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops