entities: ENT_PHRYG_MATAR

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_PHRYG_MATAR Matar Kubileya   Phrygian Goddess High Deity great mother; mountain; lions; fertility; divine sovereignty; Cybele predecessor       B           The pre-Hellenic Phrygian Mountain Mother; name means "Mother of the Mountain" (Phrygian matar = mother; Kubileya from Phrygian kybele/kybile, a title of the mountain goddess rather than a name). Attested in rock-cut shrine dedications at Midas City (Yazılıkaya, 8th c. BCE) and Gordion. Her iconographic form — a woman in a long robe framed in a doorway or niche cut from rock — is native Anatolian, predating Greek influence. The Greek and Roman Cybele is a Hellenized reception of this Phrygian Matar figure, transmitted through Phocaean trading contacts (7th–6th c. BCE). Roller (1999) pp. 67-118; Phrygian Inscriptions W-01 (Midas City). deity

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