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List of Gods : "Goddess Phrygia" - 11 records

Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
Goddess name
"ATTIS"
Phrygia / northwestern Turkey vegetation god. Attis is a “dying and rising” fertility god modeled on the Mesopotamian DUMUZI. He is considered to have originated as a shepherd. In alternative traditions, KYBELE, the “great mother,” is either his mother or purely his consort. Another legend suggests he was conceived immaculately by the demigoddess NANA when she placed a ripe almond in her bosom....
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"Adrastea"
Hellenized Phrygian / northwestern Turkey mountain goddess. Probably derived from a local...
Goddess name
"Anieros"
Phrygian Early earth goddess, who with her daughter Axiocersa, personified the earth in spring and in autumn Roman / Phrygian
Goddess name
"Axiocersa"
Phrygian Goddess of the earth Phrygian
Goddess name
"Cotys"
Phrygian The earth goddess who presided over debauchery
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"Cybele"
Phrygian A deification of the earth Mother. Like Gaia (the "Earth") or her Minoan equivalent Rhea, Cybele embodies the fertile earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals, especially lions and bees. Phrygian
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"Hannahannas"
Hittite / Hurrian Mother goddess. Described as the “great mother.” In the legend of TELEPINU, the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him. When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, the god vents his rage on the natural world. NOTE: the priestesses of the Phrygian mother goddess KYBELE were, according to the Roman writer Lactantius, melissai or bees....
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"Kybele"
Phrygian Phrygian mother of the gods; an Asiatic goddess åśśociated with Rhea
Goddess name
"Kybele/ Kybebe/ Cybele"
Phrygian / NW Turkey A rather important Asian mother goddess who likely started as a mountain goddess
Goddess name
"Nana"
Pre - Christian Armenian Mother goddess. Her cult became widespread and she may be equated with the Phrygian goddess KYBELE....
Goddess name
"Semele (earth)"
Greco - Roman but probably of Thracian or Phrygian origin Mother goddess. According to legend she was the mortal daughter of Cadmos and became the mother of the god DIONYSOS (BACCHUS) after a brief liaison with ZEUS (JUPITER), also in mortal guise. Semele was burned to death on Olympus, unable to withstand the presence of Zeus in godly form, but was subsequently deified by him....