Join Deb in embodying the Divine Feminine with your #InnerGoddessTeam! This week, we’re honoring Cybele, the Greek and Roman Earth goddess whose mythical relationship with her son/lover, Attis, was honored in the Hilaria festival in mid-March.

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Cybele was an originally an Anatolian goddess, revered as the Earth Mother or Great Mother, and was associated with mountains, hawks and lions. She was brought to mainland Greece around the 6th century BCE, then the Romans adopted her as “Magna Mater" and the Mother of the Gods. She was a Goddess of caverns and also worshipped on mountain tops. Cybele was the Goddess of nature and fertility. Because Cybele presided over mountains and fortresses, Her crown was in the form of a city wall.

Cybele’s themes are love, relationships, fertility, health, humor, victory, and strength. Her symbols are mountaintops, caverns, and pine trees.

The myth of Cybele and Attis is one of the many rebirth/resurrection stories found around the world this time of year. She found him in the reeds as a baby, then he became her son/lover and eventually went mad, castrated himself, then killed himself. Cybele, in distress, asked Jupiter to restore him. Jupiter responded by making Attis into a pine tree. Symbolically, this allowed him to eternally embrace Cybele with his roots in the earth.

Her most celebrated Greek rites and processions show Her as an exotic mystery-Goddess, who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot led by her eunuch priests (reflecting the castrated Attis), to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following.

Their myth was also celebrated in the Hilaria, in the Roman Cybele-Attis cult, which begins in sorrow over Attis’ self-mutilation and death, and ends in day of merriment on March 25, when he was resurrected.

Worshippers of Cybele believe that she brings joy, happiness, and good fortune into their lives. They believe she helps them overcome depression, loneliness, and illness.

So you can invoke her with your laughter, and when you want to lift your spirits! Author Patricia Telesco (“365 Goddesses”) suggests, “rent a good comedy flick, go out to a comedy club…”, or maybe dancing on a mountaintop!

I shared my favorite Earth goddess chant that you can sing in her honor as well:
The Earth is our Mother, we must take care of her. (repeat)
Hey Yanna Ho Yanna Hey Yon Yon (repeat)
Her sacred ground we walk upon with every step we take. (repeat)

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