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Great Idaean Mother

The Great Kind Mother; another name for Kybele (Cybele), an Asiatic Earth goddess the Greeks identified 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.

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