[JoeProBono]

(left) Mother Goddess statue from Catal Hoyuk, circa 6200 BCE. Note the lions. (right) Roman statue of the Great Mother Goddess Cybele, made over 6000 years later.

[mainsail that]

“(left) Mother Goddess statue from Catal Hoyuk, circa 6200 BCE. Note the lions. (right) Roman statue of the Great Mother Goddess Cybele, made over 6000 years later.”

That’s some makeover!!

[SunkenCiv]

The "mother goddess" was just an art piece of sorts displayed in the lobby of a Catal Huyuk whorehouse. :')

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[ApplegateRanch]

Unbelievable! The guy that sculpted those really improved his technique over the millenia!

OTOH, my sculpting skills are arrested at this stage.

No that isn't supposed to be Golem; it is Arwen Evestar.

[colorado tanker]

Cybele was a Phrygian goddess who the Greeks and Romans also sometimes worshiped. Googling turns up some bizarre practices, although I don't have enough knowledge of it to know how true some of the stranger claims are.

There seems to be a modern revival among feminists and new agers, merging Cybele into a general worship of "The Goddess." The Mother Goddess lives on . . . .