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- Cybele – Mythopedia
Cybele was known in Greece from an early period and was often identified with other mother goddesses such as Rhea or Demeter She was typically imagined riding in a lion-drawn chariot, wearing a tall, turreted crown, or holding a tympanum (a hand drum) One well-known myth told of how Cybele caused her young lover Attis to castrate himself
- Rhea - Mythopedia
Rhea and Cybele By the fourth century BCE (if not earlier), Rhea was widely identified with the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele Indeed, in Greek literature and cult, the names Rhea and Cybele were often used interchangeably The strange mythology of Cybele can thus be added to the familiar early myths of the Titan Rhea
- Corybantes – Mythopedia
The Corybantes were rustic deities often confused or identified with the Curetes Like the Curetes, the Corybantes protected Zeus while he was still an infant by loudly dancing around him to conceal his cries from his father Cronus They were also associated with the cults of Dionysus and Cybele
- Atalanta - Mythopedia
According to one myth, Atalanta and her husband profaned the temple of the goddess Cybele (or Rhea) by making love in it Because of this sacrilege, they were both transformed into lions and harnessed to the goddess’s chariot Atalanta and Hippomenes transformed into Lions by Crispijn van de Passe (1602–1607) Rijksmuseum CC0
- Dionysus – Mythopedia
It was often said that the notoriously vengeful goddess drove her husband’s illegitimate son mad, causing him to wander the world in a raving state According to the lost epic Europea, Dionysus wandered until he came to Phrygia, where Rhea (or Cybele, with whom Rhea was commonly identified) cured his madness and taught him her rites
- Dactyls – Mythopedia
The Dactyls were gods or culture heroes of obscure origins They were smiths and magicians whose number, depending on the source, varied between five and more than fifty They were connected with Mount Ida in either Crete or Phrygia and were often associated with Rhea, Cybele, or with similar divine guilds such as the Corybantes
- Vesta – Mythopedia
One night, Vesta attended a dinner party hosted by Cybele, a mother goddess All the gods and goddesses were there, as was Silenus, a wizened teacher and tutor to Bacchus who was also a lush Everyone had a lovely time, and by the end of the night most of the guests were drunk—Silenus included In his stupor, the teacher left his donkey untied
- Cumae - Mythopedia
Cumae was a colony on the Campanian mainland, founded by Greek settlers around 740 BCE The city had a rich and important history; it eventually entered myth as the site of a temple of Apollo and the seat of the Cumaean Sibyl, a famous prophetess
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