KYBELE (or Cybele) was the great Phrygian Mother of the Gods, a primal nature goddess worshipped with orgiastic rites in the mountains of central and western Anatolia. The Greeks closely identified her with their own mother of the gods, the goddess Rhea. [x]
Sculpture by Mihail Chemiakin, in front of Mimi Ferzt Gallery in Soho, on Prince Street, New York.