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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A goddess of nature and fertility in Asia Minor and later in Greece, whose worship was marked by ecstatic and frenzied states.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Proteaccæ. See
Stenocarpus . - noun In classical mythology, an earth-goddess, of Phrygian and Cretan origin, but identified by the Greeks with Rhea, daughter of Uranus and Ge, or Heaven and Earth, wife of Cronus or Saturn, and mother of Zeus or Jupiter—hence called the Mother of the Gods, or the Great Mother.
- noun In zoology, a genus of trilobites.
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- noun great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops
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Examples
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[Illustration: CYBELE THE TAMBOURINE GIRL.] "I don't know how to do anything else," replied Cybele, the blood rushing to her cheeks; "my aunt is sick, and I want to get some money."
The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land Charlotte M. Higgins
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Where in Hegel the castrated Cybele is the emptiness that distracts, in Schelling she is the fullness that excites an attack in the form of a ritualistic consumption of her body.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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Her father is after an artifact called Cybele's Secret.
The WritingYA Weblog: The Bee Goddess' Secret tanita davis 2008
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Experts in Roman religion believe that the Yorkshire cleric belonged to the officially sanctioned and important religious cult of a mother goddess called Cybele, who originated in Anatolia, present-day Turkey.
Blast from the Past: Priest of Cybele Gravesite Found Jan 2008
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St. Augustine called Cybele a harlot mother, "the mother, not of the gods, but of the demons."
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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Her father is after an artifact called Cybele's Secret.
Archive 2008-07-01 a. fortis 2008
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Experts in Roman religion believe that the Yorkshire cleric belonged to the officially sanctioned and important religious cult of a mother goddess called Cybele, who originated in Anatolia, present-day Turkey.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jan 2008
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Agdistis, whom the Greeks called Cybele, was the Great Mother of the gods.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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In the first place, then, it behooves us to name an old negress, of some sixty years, called Cybele, free through the will of her master, a slave through her affection for him and his, and who had been the nurse of Yaquita.
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The very early assimilation of Cybele and Anahita justifies to a certain extent the unwarranted practice of calling Cybele the Persian Artemis.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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