Mother of the Gods

Character · slug: mother-of-the-gods

Also: Cybele

Homeric Hymn to the Mother of the Gods (14)
Olympian gods / Phrygian reception — Mother of the Gods / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XIV — praise of the Mother with castanets, tympana, and wolves
Attis and Cybele (Classical Greek Notices)
Local and lesser — Phrygian cult in Greek reception · Classical Greek notices of a Phrygian myth; fuller narrative often Hellenistic/Roman—labeled where not Archaic Greek
The Idaean Dactyls
Local and lesser — Cretan / Phrygian metalworkers / Rhea’s attendants · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / Pausanian / Strabo — Dactyls as first ironworkers and mystic helpers
Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games
Cronus’s Hill at Olympia and the Local Zeus-Birth (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia sacred topography · Pausanian — Cronius hill; local claim that Rhea bore Zeus at Olympia
Anacharsis the Scythian
Local and lesser — Scythian sage / cult transgression / Greek wisdom legend · Herodotean — travels; Mother of the Gods at Cyzicus; death by arrow
Agdistis of Phrygia
Local and lesser — Phrygian aetiology / Mother of the Gods / Attis cycle prelude · Pausanian Lydian–Phrygian — bisexual earth-born Agdistis; almond; Attis

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library