Mother Of The Gods
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Mother Of The Gods
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Author : Philippe Borgeaud
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-11-12
Mother Of The Gods written by Philippe Borgeaud and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-12 with History categories.
Worshiped throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, the "Mother of the Gods" was known by a variety of names. Among peoples of Asia Minor, where her cult first began, she often shared the names of local mountains. The Greeks commonly called her Cybele, the name given to her by the Phrygians of Asia Minor, and identified her with their own mother goddesses Rhea, Gaia, and Demeter. The Romans adopted her worship at the end of the Second Punic War and called her Mater Magna, Great Mother. Her cult became one of the three most important mystery cults in the Roman Empire, along with those of Mithras and Isis. And as Christianity took hold in the Roman world, ritual elements of her cult were incorporated into the burgeoning cult of the Virgin Mary. In Mother of the Gods, Philippe Borgeaud traces the journey of this divine figure through Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome between the sixth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. He examines how the Mother of the Gods was integrated into specific cultures, what she represented to those who worshiped her, and how she was used as a symbol in art, myth, and even politics. The Mother of the Gods was often seen as a dualistic figure: ancestral and foreign, aristocratic and disreputable, nurturing and dangerous. Borgeaud's challenging and nuanced portrait opens new windows on the ancient world's sophisticated religious beliefs and shifting cultural identities.
The Mother Of The Gods Athens And The Tyranny Of Asia
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Author : Mark H. Munn
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-07-11
The Mother Of The Gods Athens And The Tyranny Of Asia written by Mark H. Munn and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-11 with Religion categories.
Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. She is variously described as a devoted mother, a chaste wife, an impassioned lover, and a virgin daughter; she is said to be both foreign and familiar to the Greeks. In this erudite and absorbing study, Mark Munn examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. Analyzing the divergence of Greek and Asiatic culture at the beginning of the classical era, Munn describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess who signified fertility and sovereignty, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the Persian empire. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, he shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods, and as a symbol of their own sovereignty. This book elegantly illustrates how ancient divinities were not static types, but rather expressions of cultural systems that responded to historical change. Presenting a new perspective on the context in which the Homeric and Hesiodic epics were composed, Munn traces the transformation of the Asiatic deity who was the goddess of Sacred Marriage among the Assyrians and Babylonians, equivalent to Ishtar. Among the Lydians, she was the bride to tyrants and the mother of tyrants. To the Greeks, she was Aphrodite. An original and compelling consideration of the relations between the Greeks and the dominant powers of western Asia, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia is the first thorough examination of the way that religious cult practice and thought influenced political activities during and after the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.
In Search Of God The Mother
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Author : Lynn E. Roller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-07-13
In Search Of God The Mother written by Lynn E. Roller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-13 with Religion categories.
This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread from there through the Greek and Roman world. She was an enormously popular figure, attracting devotion from common people and potentates alike. This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of the Phrygian Mother Goddess, from her earliest appearance in the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data with equal acuity and flair. While previous studies have tended to emphasize the more outrageous aspects of the Mother Goddess's cult, such as her orgiastic rituals and the eunuch priests who attended her, this book places a special focus on Cybele's position in Anatolia and the ways in which the identity of the goddess changed as her cult was transmitted to Greece and Rome. Roller gives a detailed account of the growth, spread, and evolution of her cult, her ceremonies, and her meaning for her adherents. This book will introduce students of Classical antiquity to many aspects of the Great Mother which have been previously unexamined, and will interest anyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Mother Goddess of the ancient Western world.
The Great Mother Of The Gods
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Author : Grant Showerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Great Mother Of The Gods written by Grant Showerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Cybele categories.
Magna Mater
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Author : Caitlyn Montey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-07-25
Magna Mater written by Caitlyn Montey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with categories.
With roots as an Anatolian mother goddess and symbol of fertility, Cybele came to be known as Magna Mater, Great Mother of the Gods. Conscripted by many civilizations of the Mediterranean, she became the mother goddess of much of the classical world.
The Great Mother Of The Gods
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Author : Grant Showerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
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Great Mother Of The Gods
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
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Hymn To The Mother Of The Gods
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Author : Julian
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-10
Hymn To The Mother Of The Gods written by Julian and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-10 with Nature categories.
Hymn to the Mother of the Gods is a hymn from Emperor Julian about Phrygian Cybele, Mother of the Gods. You will enjoy learning about the cult of Cybele, which was the first Oriental religion adopted by the Romans. Cybele was also known to the Latin world as the Great Mother, Magna Mater.
The Great Mother Of The Gods Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : Grant Showerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-17
The Great Mother Of The Gods Scholar S Choice Edition written by Grant Showerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-17 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Goddess
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Author : Christopher Fee
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2016-03
The Goddess written by Christopher Fee and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03 with Literary Collections categories.
For as long as humans have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of our earliest civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature's fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining havest. As people began to migrate across the world, the faces of the goddess and the roles she played were forever changed. The Goddess takes us back into prehistory, tracing the evolution of the goddess across vast spans of time to examine the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. The metamorphoses of goddess figures that have taken place and the patterns we may discern in these changes, which span millennia and a wide spctrum of cultures, have much to teach us about the development of human societies and values. This book shows us that the faces of gods and goddesses reflect the lives and souls of the peoples who worship them. It charts the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the shifting concepts of the goddessfrom her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland, and analyses the eventual subordination of goddesses to gods. From Demeter to Kali and Guanyin to Gaia, and from mother goddesses to warriors, virgins and destroyers, powerful female figures of worship continue to play a crucial role in belief systems today. The Goddess revelas how spiritual thought ties humanity to its ancient origins and shows us that the story of the goddess is also the story of ourselves.