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Magna Mater

[mahg-nuh mah-ter] / ˈmɑg nə ˈmɑ tɛr /


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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

As funerary societies, or under the shelter of Magna Mater, they escaped persecution.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Magna Mater, a foreign worship at Rome, 330.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

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




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