Cybele

Also known as: Mother of the Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Fable 80

Life events

Cybele transforms Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions after they defile her sanctuary.(Fable91)
- With: Hippomenes Atalanta
- “This he entered, and he defiled the sanctuary by a forbidden crime. The sacred images turned away their eyes, and the Mother {of the Gods}, crowned with turrets,[61] was in doubt whether she should plunge these guilty ones in the Stygian stream. That seemed {too} light a punishment. Wherefore yellow manes cover their necks so lately smooth; their fingers are bent into claws, of their shoulders are made fore-legs;[62] their whole weight passes into their breasts.”

child: Plutus “was the father of Plutus, the God of Riches, by the Goddess Cybele.”

with Echion (Echion built a temple for Cybele.) “They were passing by a temple, concealed within a shady wood, which the famous Echion had formerly built for the Mother of the Gods, according to his vow;”
with Hippomenes (Cybele causes the transformation of Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions.) “Venus, to punish his subsequent ingratitude towards her, raises his desires to such a pitch, that he incurs the resentment of Cybele, by defiling her shrine with the embraces of his mistress; on which they are both transformed into lions, and thenceforth draw the chariot of the Goddess.”
with Atalanta (Cybele causes the transformation of Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions.) “Venus, to punish his subsequent ingratitude towards her, raises his desires to such a pitch, that he incurs the resentment of Cybele, by defiling her shrine with the embraces of his mistress; on which they are both transformed into lions, and thenceforth draw the chariot of the Goddess.”
with Atalanta (interaction) “Venus, to punish his subsequent ingratitude towards her, raises his desires to such a pitch, that he incurs the resentment of Cybele, by defiling her shrine with the embraces of his mistress; on which they are both transformed into lions, and thenceforth draw the chariot of the Goddess.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.