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Cybele on a throne with lions.
Dedication by Virius Marcarianus, vir clarissimus.
250-275 AD.
Museo Archeologico, Nazionale, Naples.
Female figure on throne with lions
Catalhoyuk 6000 BC
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May 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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For #ReliefWednesday, we're visiting an exhibition on the #Palatine in #Rome dedicated to the #MagnaMater, #Cybele. Here we see one of her priests, proudly dressed in female garb and surrounded by ritual objects. This exotic cult, apparently so un-Roman, was a state religion. #AncientBluesky 🏺
RELIEF WITH A PRIEST OF CYBELE, C. 130 CE. CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI Cybele, the Magna Mater, was perhaps the first Eastern cult brought to Rome and integrated with traditional Roman religion. A Phrygian goddess, her cult was brought to Rome in 204 BCE as part of a specific strategy aimef at reinforcing Rome's Trojan origins. Her temple on the Palatine hill, close to the hut of Romulus, underlined this link: she was seen as an ancestral deity linked to the Penates, and given a priesthood overseen by the state. This relief from Velletri shows a sacerdos maximus, responsible for public ceremonies and processions. The half-figure of the priest is recessed into the marble rather than protruding from it. He wears an exotic costume akin to female dress, including earrings. These feminine attributes derive from an association of the priesthood with the cult of Attis, the follower and consort of Cybele, who emasculated himself and often appeared in women's garb. The priest wears an elaborate crown and bears a basket of fruit in one hand and a pomegranate, symbol of rebirth, in the other.
June 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“Magna Mater”

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February 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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#MagnaMater #Cybele #Catalhöyük #witchsky #pagansky #Women'sHistory #Feminism #Goddess
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Women ruled ancient Turkey and there is a lineage of the goddess Cybele that we ignore. It's obvious the earlier version is on the right from the matriarchy of Catalhöyük 6000 BC.
July 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday takes us to an #exhibition on the #Palatine and in the #Forum about the fascinating cult of #Cybele, the #MagnaMater, imported to #Rome from #Phrygia during the Second #Punic War to reinforce the #Roman connection with ancient #Troy. #AncientBluesky 🏺
RELIEF WITH ARCHIGALLUS, 250-300 CE. MUSEO OSTIENSE This relief shows the chief seer or archigallus of the state cult of Cybele, the Magna Mater. It comes from the necropolis of Portus on Isola Sacra, the island of the dead that lies between the two mouths of the Tiber. Though he has traditionally been seen as the head of the cult, more recent research tends to assign him a prophetic role. He is the "chief rooster", whereas ordinary galli, "roosters", were more like capons, as they were eunuchs, emulating the act of devotion of Attis, the goddess' consort, who emasculated himself. Whereas in Phrygia, the land around Troy where the cult originated, the galli were full priests, the Romans marginalised these "fanatical devotees" who lived on the fringes of the faith, lived by begging, and carried the statue of the goddess in processions. The archigallus was not a eunuch. Here we see him making an offering to a statue of Cybele at upper left. He's wearing a toga contabulata and a crown decorated with two reclining figures.
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
leokaptra.bsky.social
As an #artdeco fan Im obsessed whenever I see mythological/pagan reliefs like this one on Berkeley High School showing the goddess #cybele 💜 #mothergoddess #mothernature #pagan #magnamater
December 18, 2024 at 3:49 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday takes us into the Uccelliere or birdhouses in the #Farnese Gardens on the #Palatine in #Rome to find this frightening head of the #Anatolian goddess #Matar, the #Roman deity the #MagnaMater, whose history stretches back into the mists of time. #AncientBluesky 🏺
HEAD OF CYBELE, C6 BCE. PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO DEL COLOSSEO This frankly terrifying head of the Magna Mater, Cybele, is in an exhibition on that goddess in various places on the Palatine and in the Forum. Normally this sandstone head is on display in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. It comes from Salmanköy in what was ancient Phrygia in Anatolia, where she was known as Matar, "mother". When her cult spread to the Greek-dominated coast of Asia Minor she was called "Meter Megale", Great Mother, Magna Mater in Latin. Here we see her Phrygian form, a face with huge round eye sockets which may have contained inlaid eyes, then a brow that meets at a narrowing pointed nose, now broken, high cheekbones, hair in short ringlets, and an ambiguous smile on her lips. Atop her head is a huge damaged vase-like crown with fluted leaves going up from the lower rim and a band of daisy-like flowers in the upper register.
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#SarcophagusSaturday reminds us that #Christianity didn't take over #Rome right away. This #sarcophagus lid from about 25 years after #Constantine began building his basilicas shows a merry festival of #Cybele, the #MagnaMater, celebrating the #resurrection of her consort #Attis. #AncientBluesky 🏺
SARCOPHAGUS LID WITH PROCESSION OF THE MAGNA MATER, C. 350 CE. CLOISTER OF S. LORENZO FUORI LE MURA This huge sarcophagus lid front is missing its sarcophagus but we can surmise it was a large one, perhaps for two of the priests of the cult (sacerdotes maximi) or of an archigallus or chief seer. This is a specific procession, part of the cultic calendar of the Magna Mater. It took place on one of the central festivals of the faith, the Hilaria, on 25 March, a joyful feast celebrating the rebirth of the goddess' consort Attis, during which her effigy was brought out of her Palatine temple in a procession that crossed the city. Here we see, at right, the effigies of the Magna Mater and Victory being carried out on litters, with trumpeters and celebrants in a crowd. After the tabula are two priests, then four elephants, each being ridden by a male figure. They are pulling an elaborate cart which probably bore an image of reborn Attis, but the corner is broken off.
June 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK unnatural calls for social purity & virginity among women has a long history? Mortal consorts of goddess #MagnaMater, #Cybele, pledged #SexualPurity in Rome (250BCE). Her priests—galli—#castrated themselves, & #CrossDressed as women. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK self-castration has a long history? Mortal consorts of goddess #MagnaMater, #Cybele, pledged sexual purity. Her priests, galli, castrated themselves. So did followers of Jesus who yearned to be #eunuchs “for the kingdom of heaven”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TransHistory
January 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK priests of #MagnaMater/#Cybele castrated themselves & the #HolyEunuch idea was powerful for Christians? They built the basilica of the mater dei—the mother of God, Santa Maria Maggiore, over the Roman temple of the Great Mother. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #syncretic
April 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The cult of #Cybele and #Attis (also called the cult of the #GreatMother, #MagnaMater) was long established in Rome, while the cult of #Isis and #Serapis expanded especially in the western part of the empire during the 2nd century.
September 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK consorts of #MagnaMater, #Cybele, pledged #SexualPurity? Her priests—galli—#castrated themselves, penis as well as testicles & #CrossDressed as women. Like cinaedi, gallus became a term of ridicule for #passive or #effeminate men. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt.
September 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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DYK Emperors #Nero & #Elagabalus both married #galli? They were men who #castrated themselves, #penis & #testicles, in worship of #Cybele/#MagnaMater & #CrossDressed as women. Gay marriage is a very old idea. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
August 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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DYK mortal consorts of Roman #MagnaMater/#Cybele pledged #SexualPurity? Her priests—galli—#castrated themselves, penis as well as testicles & #CrossDressed as women. The word gallus became a term of ridicule for passive or effeminate men. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
January 21, 2026 at 2:52 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK priests of #MagnaMater/#Cybele castrated themselves & the #HolyEunuch idea was powerful for Christians? They built the basilica of the mater dei—the mother of God, Santa Maria Maggiore, over the Roman temple of the Great Mother. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #syncretic
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK consorts of #MagnaMater, #Cybele, pledged #SexualPurity? Her priests—galli—#castrated themselves, penis as well as testicles & #CrossDressed as women. Like cinaedi, gallus became a term of ridicule for #passive or #effeminate men. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt.
October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK Emperors #Nero & #Elagabalus both married #galli? They were men who castrated themselves, penis & testicles, in worship of #Cybele/#MagnaMater & #CrossDressed as women. Gay marriage is a very old idea. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK mortal consorts of Roman #MagnaMater/#Cybele pledged #SexualPurity? Her priests—galli—#castrated themselves, penis as well as testicles & #CrossDressed as women. The word gallus became a term of ridicule for passive or #effeminate men. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
April 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
DYK self-castration has a long history? Mortal consorts of goddess #MagnaMater, #Cybele, pledged sexual purity. Her priests, galli, castrated themselves. So did followers of Jesus who yearned to be #eunuchs “for the kingdom of heaven”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TransHistory
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM