god
Cybele
also: Dindymene, Berecyntia
The Great Mother goddess of Phrygia, whose ecstatic rites with drum and horn drive her priests to frenzy.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.16 Dindymene
Cybele, the Great Mother of Mount Dindymus, whose rites madden her priests.
- The Odes §1.18 Berecyntian horn
The Phrygian horn of Cybele's ecstatic rites, named with the 'savage drums.'