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The Cult Dossier · No. 007 · Ancient Mystery Cult
Cult of Cybele and Attis
Magna Mater; the Galli
c.7th c. BCE – 4th c. CE · Phrygia (Anatolia), then Rome
I. ANTIQUITY — THE MYSTERY CULTS
Fully religious — Roman state cult from 204 BCE
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 204 BCE Under Hannibal's threat, Rome imports the black meteorite of Cybele from Pessinus on the instruction of the Sibylline Books.
- 191 BCE Temple dedicated on the Palatine; the Megalensia games instituted, 4–10 April.
- c.40 CE Claudius fully legalises the cult and admits Roman citizens to the priesthood.
- 15–27 March, annually Canna intrat; Arbor intrat (the pine felled); 24 March Dies Sanguinis, the blood-letting and castrations; 25 March Hilaria, resurrection joy; 27 March Lavatio.
- 390 CE Last dated taurobolium inscription.
- 394 CE Suppressed under Theodosius I.
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