Magna Mater
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Lombard imagines Claudia Quinta’s rescue of the ship carrying Magna Mater to Rome.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
It eventually became the Catskills Phrygianum of the Maetreum of Cybele Magna Mater, their global headquarters and convent house.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2011
The evidence supplied by this and other Cretan sites shows that the principal Minoan divinity was a kind of Magna Mater, a Great Mother or nature goddess, with whom was associated a male satellite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
The Magna Mater, who is thoroughly different from her Hellenized sister, penetrated into all Latin provinces and imposed herself upon them with the Roman religion.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz
It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
