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
The earliest invader from the East of the sober decorum of old Roman religion, and almost the last to succumb, was Magna Mater of Pessinus.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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 Eliot, Charles, Sir
There were the gravest moral abuses connected with such worships as that of Magna Mater.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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