The Megalensia festival c
The Megalensia festival celebrated a Black Stone belonging to this deity, who was also worshipped at the Hilaria festival. In the Aeneid, a row of beached ships are turned into sea nymphs by this goddess. This deity was worshipped by a cult of dancer-warriors called Corybantes. According to tradition, she resurrected and deified a (*) castrated lover named Attis and had a chariot drawn by lions, often held to be Atalanta and Hippomenes transformed after they consummated their marriage in this goddess's temple. Conflated with Rhea and the Roman Magna Mater, for 10 points, name this Phrygian goddess of growth, fertility, and the earth.
The Megalensia festival celebrated a Black Stone belonging to this deity, who was also worshipped at the Hilaria festival.
{Cybele} (SIBB-uh-lee) [or {Kubeleya}; prompt on {Magna Mater} until mention; prompt on {Kubaba}; prompt on {Kubebe}]