This figure's cult was brought to Rome from Pessinus during the Second Punic War as a black stone according to the Sibylline books.
An image of this figure was carved upon the rock Coddinus by Broteas, a son of Tantalus, and this figure is often associated with a son of Nana. Called Dindymene by the Greeks, this figure was often depicted in art as wearing a turret-like crown. Worship of this figure was the subject of the Megalesian games in Rome, and this figure was often referred to as "Idaean" after a mountain in Asia Minor. This figure's followers were called the galli, and this figure's cult became very important during the rule of Augustus, who restored this figure's temple, which was next to his own palace on the Palatine. This figure's cult was brought to Rome from Pessinus during the Second Punic War as a black stone according to the Sibylline books. Ovid states that Atalanta and Hippomenes had sex in a temple of this goddess, were turned into lions, and later had to pull her chariot. Originally a Phrygian goddess representing the earth's fertility, FTP, name this goddess and consort of Attis, whose followers were self-castrated youths and who represented the Earth Mother
An image of this figure was carved upon the rock Coddinus by Broteas, a son of Tantalus, and this figure is often associated with a son of Nana.
{Cybele} or {Magna Mater} [prompt on {Idaea} or {Dindymene} early, prompt on {Sipylene} or {Meter}]