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Fresco depicting a religious procession with a statue of Cybele on a stretcher (ferculum), and a niche-aedicula with a herm of Dionysus.  Facade of the House of Venus and the Four Gods (IX. 7. 1), Pompeii, 1st cent. CE.
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Votive Relief to Cybele and Attis from Asia Minor, 2nd Century BCE.
Museo Correr, Venice.
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Roman marble statuette (2nd cent. CE) of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, aka the Magna Mater ("Great Mother"). The goddess was imported to Rome from Pergamum during the Second Punic War, in the form of a black meteoric stone (βαίτυλος), at the behest of the Sibylline Books; she was given a festival in April (the Megalensia), but due to the "exoticness" of her cult, Romans were barred from taking part in the ecstatic procession of her eunuch priests. Here, the goddess is shown seated and attended by the lions that were said to draw her chariot. Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.
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The Goddess Kybele Formiae in Campania, ca. 60 BCE
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
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Sanctuary of Attis, Ostia Antica
* photo 1: Pan and Attis; the latter was dedicated by Caius Cartilius Euplus. The statue has an inscription which reads:" To the divine majesty of Attis, Caius Cartilius Euplus, after an admonition by the goddess." (source: https://www.ostia-antica.org/regio4/1/1-3.htm)
* photo 2: Marble reliefs of Pan
* 3rd century CE
Ostia Antica, July 2015
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Cybele with Hermes and Hekate
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Rhea, the mother of the gods.
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Bassareus
Wise Bassareus, He who can never be hunted, You are the fox who is never caught, Whose body yields not to the snares and dogs of hunters, There is no situation that You cannot escape, No bonds that You cannot loosen. Dionysos, I pray, If ever in my hour of need hunters surround me, If ever traps ensnare my foot, Free me, let me run, And I will forever praise Your name.
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Alphonse Mucha(1860-1939)
“Esprit de printemps(Spirit of Spring)” 1894
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Allegory of Spring by Nathanael Schmitt 1871 oil on canvas
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"Dream Traveler" 2024 James Baxter
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"Of the sun's healing power Asclepius is the symbol, and to him they have given the staff as a sign of the support and rest of the sick, and the serpent is wound round it, as significant of his preservation of body and soul: for the animal is most full of spirit, and shuffles off the weakness of the body. It seems also to have a great faculty for healing: for it found the remedy for giving clear sight, and is said in a legend to know a certain plant which restores life."
Porphyry, "On Images" (tr. Edwin Hamilton Gifford)
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There are two reasons why is Isis a good healer. She has had plenty of practice on Horus and has a vast magical and medical knowledge and power. “Her speech is breath of life, her utterance removes a suffering, her words restore the one with an oppressed threat to life.” She certainly has the compassion. “Her greatest delight is to bestow cures on mankind.” Thoth is an important healer and in some texts he is the one who taught Isis the art of healing. He also helps her when she is unable to cure the patient. As the Earth God, Geb has power over snakes and other poisonous creatures and he taught Isis, giving her the knowledge and power to “repulse poison”. On the Metternich stele Isis explains how she is “driving away reptiles…every reptile who stings listens to me”. The Greeks associated Isis with Asclepius, their God of Healing. At Athens there was a temple to Isis within the sanctuary of Asclepius and dream incubation was practiced in both. Isis was also associated with the Goddess Hygeia who personified health.
- Isis - the Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome by Lesley Jackson
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Swan skypos, southern Italy, Colony of Apulia, late 4th century BCE.
Swan plate, Magna Graecia, South Italy, Xenon, ca. 4th c. BCE.
Apulian Greek Olpe with swan, Magnia Graecia, c. 4th Century BCE
Apulian lekythos with swan, ca. 340 to 325 BCE.
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View from the Apollon sanctuary in Delphi
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Marble votive stele featuring god Apollon and the dedicator.
Temple of Apollo, Amphanae
Classical Period, 4th century BC
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Poplars, Claude Monet, 1891
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