RE-AIR: But What About Rome?! Roman Mythology & the Great Mother Cybele

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Naturally, as soon as Liv was ready to get settled in Toronto, she came down with a terrible cold and sounds half human half lawnmower, so today we're bringing you a little more ancient Rome, since it's all the rage right now.

Liv dives (or perhaps wades into the shallows) of Roman mythology and religion, and tells the story of how the Phrygian goddess Cybele ended up in Italy.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Theoi.com entry on Cybele, Agdistis, and Attis; Ovid's Fasti, translated by James G. Frazer; Roman Mythology by David Stuttard; Wikipedia for sourcing, etc.; the Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion.

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0:00.0	instruct me to, I pray, my guide, whence was she fetched, whence came? Was she always in our city? The mother goddess
0:24.2	ever loved Dindemos, and Kibelay and Ida with its delightful springs and the realm of Iliam.
0:32.6	When Aeneas carried Troy to the Italian fields, the goddess almost followed the ships that bore the sacred things,
0:40.4	but she felt that fate did not yet call for intervention of her divinity in Latium,
0:46.3	and she remained behind in her accustomed place.
0:50.4	Afterwards, when mighty Rome had already seen five centuries and had lifted up her head above the conquered world,
0:59.9	the priest consulted the fateful words of the Ubeian song. They say that what he found ran thus.
1:07.8	The mother is absent. Thou Rome, I bid thee seek the mother. When she shall come,
1:13.3	she must be received by chaste hands. The ambiguity of the dark oracle puzzled the senators
1:20.2	to know who the parent was and where she was to be sought. Pian was consulted and said,
1:27.8	Fetch the mother of the gods, she is to be sought. Pian was consulted and said, Fetch, the mother of the gods,
1:29.8	she is to be found on Mount Ida.
1:32.9	Nobles were sent.
1:33.9	The scepter of Phrygia was then held by Attalus.
1:37.4	He refused the favor to the Aosonian lords.
1:41.0	Wonders to tell.
1:42.5	The earth trembled and rumbled long, and in her shrine, thus did the goddess speak.
1:48.5	T'was my own will that they should send for me, Terry not let me go, it is my wish.
1:54.4	Rome is a place meant to be the resort of every god. Quaking with terror at the words Adelus said,
2:01.7	Go forth, you will still be ours. Rome traces its origin to Phrygian ancestors.
3:09.9	Music Well, hello and welcome. I am Liv and this this is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, a Greek mythology podcast that sometimes dares dive in to Roman myth. But God's is Roman myth more difficult to dive into. And yet here we are in August, continuing on our month of Rome. That passage at the top was from Ovid's Fasti, but we will get to everything that it means later. Of course, it's not like I've gone all of these six years without talking about Rome, but I really do prefer Greece, obviously. Still, the Romans deserve a bit of attention from me,
3:12.7	so I'm going to be doing my best to give it to them.
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