Cybele – Magna Mater – Rhea Statue Preorder

Only 4 Statues of the Cybele – Great Mother of the Gods –  are available for preorder with a giant -30% discount! Don’t miss your chance – place your preorder and participate in the great project of creating a worthy statue of Magna Mater!

Romans knew Cybele as Magna Mater (“Great Mother”), or as Magna Mater deorum Idaea (“great Idaean mother of the gods”), equivalent to the Greek title Meter Theon Idaia (“Mother of the Gods, from Mount Ida”). Rome officially adopted her cult during the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC), after dire prodigies, including a meteor shower, a failed harvest, and famine, seemed to warn of Rome’s imminent defeat. The Roman Senate and its religious advisers consulted the Sibylline oracle and decided that Carthage might be defeated if Rome imported the Magna Mater (“Great Mother”) of Phrygian Pessinos. As this cult object belonged to a Roman ally, the Kingdom of Pergamum, the Roman Senate sent ambassadors to seek the king’s consent; en route, a consultation with the Greek oracle at Delphi confirmed that the goddess should be brought to Rome. The goddess arrived in Rome in the form of Pessinos’ black meteoric stone.

The figurine of the Goddess will be 13.5 cm / 5.3 in high and is cast in brass with a wooden base (10 cm / 4 in diameter).

Weight will be about 474 g / 1 pound.

The statuette is based on Fuente De Cibeles from Madrid, Spain

*IMPORTANT NOTICE! We claim up to 7 days for processing your order. As a rule, this happens much faster – in a day or two. We do this because all items produced by ARX are being consecrated with an authentic religious ceremony before shipment. The ceremony begins with auspicium – the ritual of requesting Iuppiter’s permission for the rites following. This permission may be and may not be granted right away. Sometimes it takes several days to receive it. So sometimes (very rarely) shipment may be delayed a little longer.
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