The Goddess Cybele Virtual Zoom Lecture-Dr James Rietveld-Ipso Facto- Jul22

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Join us for a virtual lecture on the Goddess  Cybele, Great Mother Goddess of Anatolia: Origins, Mythology, Practices, Legacy- July 22, 8 pm

Join us for this virtual lecture on the Goddess Cybele on July 22, 8 p.m. with Dr. James Rietveld.Pay What You Wish: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/159072627511THE CULT OF CYBELE, THE GREAT MOTHER GODDESS OF ANATOLIA: ORIGINS, MYTHOLOGY, PRACTICES, CONTROVERSY, &amp; LEGACY The Cult of Cybele was dedicated to the worship of the Great Mother (Magna Mater) of Anatolia (current day Turkey), with origins going back to Catalhoyuk in the sixth millennium BCE. The Cult of Cybele came from Pessinus in Phrygia, the heartland of ecstatic religions of all kinds (later inclusive of the Christian ‘heresy’ known as Montanism and the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi). By the Greek and Roman era, the Cult of Cybele was still very hierarchical, exclusive, and exotic, and included a mythology that often shocked classical sensibilities and very strange, wild rituals to accompany them. For example, males who wished to become part of her priesthood castrated themselves, then lived as females, and often performed violent acts of self-flagellation during the major holidays. Depictions of Greek rites and processions show her as a mystery goddess whose processions featured lion drawn carriages, wild music, wine and ecstatic dancing, with her cult becoming associated with mountains, city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals, especially lions.While the Cult of Cybele arrived in Rome as early as 204 BCE, mass appeal for this belief system was slow and only expanded significantly in the first century CE. Eventually, however, the Cult of Cybele as the Magna Meter (Great Mother) accommodated to synchronistic and universalistic pressures, as well as to create an ingenious rite of individual initiation called the taurobolium, which was the baptism by the blood of a bull. Eventually becoming a key religious ally in Rome's second war against Carthage (218 to 201 BC), the Romanized forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout Rome's empire.On Thursday, July 22 at 8:00 p.m. we will investigate one of the most controversial belief systems of antiquity and peek behind the veil into practices going back to the Neolithic Age.Dr. Rietveld is a professor at California State University, Fullerton, CA and Cal Poly, Pomona, CA of History, Anthropology and Religion. His specialties include the History of Christianity in the Early, Medieval and Byzantine periods, New Testament Studies and Greco-Roman religions. He received his PHD from Claremont School of Religion and is the author of two books.Please make sure to have Zoom installed on your computer prior to class. You will receive a confirmation and email reminders with the entry link. Make sure that the email you signed up with Eventbrite is one that you can access for this info. Paste the link into your browser just prior to class start time and you will have entry to the live interactive class. Ticket holders will be emailed a private You Tube video link and pdf powerpoint about 10 days following the class .

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