Goddesses
Cybele and Hecate Standing Plaque
Heavy, 9 inch silver-black
resin, free standing plaque.
Lovely piece of art and nicely crafted, depicting the two Goddess
making music and mystery together.
Cybele and Hecate were leading deities of mystery cults
and considered powerful in divination especially for those at a cross roads,
starting a journey, or giving birth. Hecate cradles a torch, Cybele, her drum
and offering bowl, and the two goddesses respectfully regard one another in this
hand-finished plaque.
Amazon women worshipped Artemis, Cybele and Hecate as Maiden, Mother and Crone,
and Thracian Bendis was closely allied to Cybele and Hecate. Diodorus says that
the Amazons offered sacrifice to Cybele, Hecate and Artemis and served as
votaries.
The cult of Cybele idolized an earth-goddess of fertility in human, beast, and
field. Her worship was accompanied by the sound of crashing drums and cymbals,
the music of the pipe, and the voices of frenzied votaries. Her inspiration came
as a form of holy madness, which endowed the worshiper with a sense of mystic
ecstasy and supernatural strength.
Cybele's name may have a connection with stone cubes (Kybos means dice). The
material inscribed with Her sacred image brought to Rome in 204 C.E. by order of
the Cumaean Sybil was a black meteorite. Sybil means "cave-dweller"
and is a Latin form of Cybele. The Sybils of Cumae lived in a sacred cavern
dedicated to Triple Hecate which was classically believed to be
the entrance to the underworld.
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[fourth century relief, Piraeus, Greece]
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