Kybele
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March 25 Hilaria (Rome) Cybele Themes: Love; Health; Humor; Victory; Strength; Relationships Symbols: Pine; Meteorite Stone; Key About Cybele: A black stone that personified this Roman earth goddess is credited with a successful battle against Hannibal. It this strength, especially in difficult relationships, that Cybelle augments in us as this month draws to a close.
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To challenge myself, I decided to write this poem with 5 words per line instead of 3. Just that small change made this poem much, much harder. Not only does it get harder to think of words that all start with that same letter that fit the theme, but it gets hard to evoke the
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“Together come and follow to the Phrygian home of Cybele, to the Phrygian forests of the goddess, where the clash of cymbals ring, where tambourines resound, where the Phrygian flute-player blows deeply on his curved reed, where ivy-crowned maenads toss their heads wildly.” — Catullus, poem 63 Kybele (pronounced Ku-bel-EE) is a Goddess of the
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Knowledge secret and sacred, wild and free Youthful Attis Her dying-and-restructuring lover Boisterous is the sound of the drums, frenzied is the dancing Exuberant are Her worshipers, Her rites filled with sacred ecstasy Lions attend the Mistress of the Wild in Her mountainous home Exotic this foreign Mother of the Gods, Protector of Empires
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So the September God of the Month Club is looking very interesting. The two Gods from the Neos Alexandrian pantheon are Demeter and Kybele. I’m very glad that Demeter came up, because I am working on Her chapter right now in Journey to Olympos, my book about worshiping the Hellenic Gods. Although I understand Her
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On this, Kybele’s holy day Worshipers gather in the dark The drums pound out a deepening sound Firelight flickers, casting an eerie glow The priestess dances Whirling around Feet never touching the ground Her long hair swirls around her face A halo, a crown, a black fog She spins and spins, in her own
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One of my favorite devotional activities is making colleges for the Gods. I save them in a large binder that serves as a kind of portable altar, too. This is the college for Rhea-Kybele, the Mountain-Mother.
Temple of Athena the Savior 