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Magna Mater

[mahg-nuh mah-ter] / ˈmɑg nə ˈmɑ tɛr /


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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

She is _acheiropoeta—_not painted by any human hands whatever, and in so far resembles a certain old image of the Magna Mater, her prototype, which was also of divine origin.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

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)

The earliest invader from the East of the sober decorum of old Roman religion, and almost the last to succumb, was Magna Mater of Pessinus.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel




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