Magna Mater
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Magna Mater
First recorded in 1700–10 ; from Latin magna māter “great mother,” title for several godesses, especially for Cybele
Example Sentences
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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
In the Latin Occident, however, no trace of it can be found, because it had been absorbed by the worship of Magna Mater.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
He had a horror of the Magna Mater, she was detestable.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The worship of the Magna Mater was known in Rome by 200 B.C. and that of Isis and Serapis in the time of Sulla.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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