Cybele

(Cy′bele). The mother of the gods, and hence called Magna Mater. She was wife of Saturn. She is sometimes referred to under the names of Ceres, Rhea, Ops, and Vesta. She is represented as riding in a chariot drawn by lions. In one hand she holds a scepter, and in the other a key. On her head is a cast elated crown, to denote that she was the first to protect castles and walls with towers. “Nor Cybele with half so kind an eye Surveyed her sons and daughters of the sky.” Dryden. “Might she the wise Latona be, Or the towered Cybele, Mother of a hundred gods, Juno dares not give her odds.” Milton.