the Great Mother
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Great, the Mighty, the Strong · the Samothracians' gods
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The Magna Mater deity, allegorized in the text as the earth.
The very common superstition too of ordinary idolatry, when in its images it is ashamed of the names and fables of the dead of old, flees to an interpretation of natural things, and overshadows its disgrace with ingenuity, figuring Jupiter into a fiery substance and his Juno into an airy one — according to the sound of the Greek words — likewise Vesta into fire, and the Camenae into waters, and th …
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Cybele, the pagan Great Mother goddess, cited in the Psychics' comparison disparaging Xerophagy.
As for Xerophagies, they call it a newfangled name for an affected observance, and one closely akin to pagan superstition, such as the abstinences by which they purify Apis, Isis and the Great Mother by excepting certain foods—whereas faith, free in Christ, owes the abstinence from certain foods not even to the Jewish Law, the whole shambles having been once for all permitted by the Apostle, who d …
De Spectaculis
Cybele-type mother goddess and associated triad of deities honored with altars and a presiding place in the circus.
before them three altars appear to three gods, the Great, the Mighty, the Strong.