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Mar 10 5 tweets 6 min read
In 205 BC it (#Rome) announced that the #Sibylline books for-told that Hannibal would leave Italy if the #Magnamator, a form of the goddess #Cybele should be brought from #Phrygian pescemes to Rome.
Atlas king of Perhamom consented. The #BlackStone which was believed to be incarnation of the Great Mother was shipped to Austia where it was received with impressive ceremony by Scipio Africanus and a band of virtuous matrons.

Cesar to Christ
#Durant
1944

#BlackRock
The Senate was shocked
to find that the new divinity
had to be served
by self emasculated priests.
Such men were found
but no Roman
was allowed to be among them.

The High Preist / Priestess
of #Cybele:
Called the #Galli

#Phrygian hat
celebrating every April the Megalaziea of the great goddess, first with wild sorrow then with wild rejoicing…

#Cybele was a vegetation diety & legend told how her son Attis symbol of Autumn & Spring had died & gone to Hades & then had risen from the dead…

#Attis / #Mithras

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