Magna Mater

The Magna Mater is the goddess Cybele, the great mother of the gods from Phrygia.

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

Next time let it be a son! she prayed, offering to Juno Sospita, Magna Mater, and Spes.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Next time let it be a son! she prayed, offering to Juno Sospita, Magna Mater, and Spes.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

She was known to the Hittites as Kubebe, to others as Kubaba or Kubele, to the Greeks as Cybele pronounced “kibbili”, and to the Romans as Magna Mater, the Great Mother.

Log of the Eclipse (10) (All Over Again) Walter Jon Williams 2006

She was known to the Hittites as Kubebe, to others as Kubaba or Kubele, to the Greeks as Cybele pronounced “kibbili”, and to the Romans as Magna Mater, the Great Mother.

Archive 2006-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

For example, Atia, as devotee of Magna Mater, undergoes a taurobolium: the sacrifice of a bull with the blood dripping down through a gate onto the worshiper below.

Rome Yet Again 2005

The statues, he wrote, most likely represented “the Anatolian ‘Fertility Goddess,’ the prototype of Hepat, Kupapa, Cybele, and the Magna Mater”: that is, the Hacilar figurines presaged a long line of later goddesses worshipped across Asia and Europe.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

It was as if his very passivity and prostitution to the Magna Mater gave him insight into material business affairs, and lent him a certain remarkable inhuman force.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

In the interests of fairness I must point out that the Magna Mater beat him to it by a couple of days.

Exhibition Killings Laban 2004

The crowd took up the chant, too, as the Magna Mater passed regally by Some people tossed coins which weeping priests scooped off the paving stones and drop into little bowls.

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995