Magna Mater

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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

The evidence supplied by this and other Cretan sites shows that the principal Minoan divinity was a kind of Magna Mater, a Great Mother or nature goddess, with whom was associated a male satellite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

This Magna Mater was the first Oriental deity introduced into Rome, and the last deity introduced by the Sibylline books.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

It seemed as if Magna Mater herself, the great Mother, had thrown an invisible mantle over the humble freedwoman, shielding her with god-like power.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness