CYBELE
Cybele
Cybele was an originally Anatolian mother goddess. Little is known of her oldest Anatolian cults, other than her association with mountains, hawks and lions. A pregnant goddess seated on a lion throne was found in the granary at Catal Huyuk going back to the earliest neolithic in the Konya region. Her name may derive from the Hurrian mother Goddess Kheba, and she may have been Phrygia's state deity; her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies from around the 6th century BCE.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Cybele
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