relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 1644,ENT_CYBELE,reception_of,ENT_PHRYG_MATAR,high,"Greek/Roman Cybele is a Hellenized reception of the Phrygian Matar Kubileya; the transmission route was through Phocaean Greek traders contacting Phrygian cult centers in the 7th–6th c. BCE. Key moments: the introduction of Cybele to Smyrna and Ephesus (6th c. BCE), then to Athens (5th c. BCE), then to Rome (204 BCE as Magna Mater/Mater Deum). Roller (1999) pp. 119-165.",SRC_ROLLER_CYBELE,reviewed, 2385,ENT_ATTIS,paired_with,ENT_PHRYG_MATAR,high,"Attis is the consort and beloved of Matar Kubileya in the Phrygian tradition — their pairing is the theological foundation of the Cybele-Attis mystery cult. In the Pessinuntine myth Attis is the beautiful youth whom Cybele/Matar loves; his self-castration and death is the wound at the cult's emotional center, and the annual mourning and resurrection rites re-enact the divine pair's tragedy and renewal. Roller (1999) pp. 139-165; Vermaseren (1977) pp. 90-110.",SRC_VERMASEREN_CYBELE_ATTIS,reviewed,PER_PHRYG_IRON_AGE