Cybele/Rhea

Homeric Hymn to the Mother of the Gods

I prithee, clear-voiced Muse, daughter of mighty Zeus, sing of the mother of all gods and men. She is well-pleased with the sound of rattles (krotala) and of timbrels (tympana), with the voice of flutes (auloi) and the outcry of wolves and bright-eyed lions, with echoing hills and wooded coombes.

And so hail to you in my song and to all goddesses as well!

(H. G. Evelyn-White, Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, Cambridge, Mass.-London: Harvard University Press and Heinemann, 1959: 439)

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