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Title: Grecian and Roman mythology
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1806-1858 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York Chicago : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e artists only object was toindicate the mystery with which the goddess was covered. Pluto, oras he was likewise called, Jupiter Serapis, sitting on a throne, holds inhis left hand a scythe, and with his right hand strokes the triple-headedCerberus; on his left stands Harpocrates, the god of silence, havinghis finger placed upon his lips; and on his right, the veiled Vesta,with the torch in her hand; Harpocrates carries a cornucopia; theseare combined emblems of the innermost, concealed, mysterious part ofnature, from which life and fulness continually flow. Vesta, represented with the torch, is sometimes thought to be theancient Vesta, who probably was the same as Terra. In the fictionsof the ancients, the earlier and later deities are often confounded, and,as it were, lost in one another; and since Earth, one of the pristinedeities, no longer makes a distinct appearance among the moderns, sheseemed to be renewed in Vesta, as Helios in Apollo. 148 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. CYBELE.
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The Greeks renewed the fiction of Terrain Cybele, and considered her as the motherof all creatures, gods as well as men. Thearchetype of Cybele was likewise the greatproductive power that gives rise to all for-mations. She was conceived to be the rulerof the elements and the beginning of time;the highest goddess of the heavens, as wellas the queen of the lower world; and eventhe representative of every deity, keepingthe female character, because of her ever-producing power. Although this goddess is represented sitting in a chariot drawn bylions, and bearing a mural or tower crown upon her head, to indicateher all-subduing power, together with her sovereignty of the earthoverspread with cities, yet this representation is merely an externalcover for her incomprehensible formless character. In the temple of the great mother of life, at Pessinus in Galatia, asmall stone of a blackish color, and rough, irregular surface, representedthe Alma Mater. It was also the idea of this mysterious be

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