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

But aside from the rapid growth of the Magna Mater cult itself we have in this second century two instances of this tendency.

From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Carter, Jesse Benedict

This Magna Mater was the first Oriental deity introduced into Rome, and the last deity introduced by the Sibylline books.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

For one hundred years after the introduction of the worship of the Magna Mater Romans were prohibited from enrolling themselves in the ranks of her priesthood.

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