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| AKA Magna Mater/Mater Deum/Deorum; From Asia Minor (Turkey); depicted carrying drum, flanked by lions, wearing headdress. Originally no body, just black rock. Probs meteor. |
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| Companion of Cybele, sometimes son/lover/grandson. Cybele drove him insane when he was going to marry another woman, he castrated himself and bled to death under a pine tree. Why priests of Cybele castrate themselves and are depicted with pine cones. |
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| Religion ignoring images. |
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| Headdress that Cybele wears. |
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| Preists of cult of Cybele; unics, self mutilated in public, begging in streets for money. Romans instantly regret decision to bring cult in. |
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Ouch.
Practiced by gallus/galli. Made them not Roman citizens because 'technically' no longer male. |
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| Top priesthood of Roman reformed cult of Cybele, not unics, therefore Roman citizens. |
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| Festivals that celebrate Cybele. |
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| Kind of ceremony; archigallus stood in pit with perforated rood. A bull was sacrificed and then castrated over the roof and the archigallus let the blood rain down on him. The bull's castration was in place of his own. |
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