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**Also know as “Cybele & Lion”. **Cybele, an ancient fertility goddess whose worship is thought to have spread from Anatolia to Greece in the Archaic period (c. 800-500) and further during the Hellenistic period (c. 300-50), is known by many names, including;
•Great Mother
•Dindymene
•Kubaba
•A(n)gdistis, and
•Mater Deum Magna Idaea (Great Idaean Mother of the Gods).
In Greece the worship of Cybele was associated with that of Rhea, the mother of Zeus and wife of Cronus. Besides fertility, represented by fruit in art, Cybele is associated with cities, and so, on her crown there is a gate. In the picture of Cybele, from Oskar Seyffert’s Diciontary of Classical Antiquities, copied here, lions flank Cybele to suggest her strength. Sometimes leopards accompany Cybele.
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