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CybeleKybele

An Asiatic goddess whose priests, Korybants (Corybants), wore full armor at her rituals; the eunuchs who served her were called Bakelas (Bacelas).

Kybele was an Earth Goddess and the Greeks identified her with the wife of Kronos (Cronos), Rheia (Rhea); before 430 BCE, the center of worship for Kybele was in Phrygia in Asia Minor but a shrine was established in the city of Athens during the plague of 430 BCE in hopes that the Earth-Goddess would be appeased and end the suffering that decimated the Athenians; she was also called the Great Idaean Mother, i.e. the Great Kind Mother.

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