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 temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, those of Quirinus and the Magna Mater, besides eighty-two other shrines of lesser fame, were repaired or restored by him.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The introduction of the taurobolium in the ritual of the Magna Mater, where it appeared after the middle of the first century, was probably connected with this transformation.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz

It was, doubtless, in some such way as this that a stone came to be identified with the Magna Mater of Pessinus.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris