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Headword: *kubeli/ois
Adler number: kappa,2588
Translated headword: [in] Kybelian [rites]; [in] Cybelian [rites]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning in] those of Rhea. For Kybele [is] Rhea.
"With a Galaian howling of Kybele".[1]
For Kybela [are] mountains of Phrygia, where she used to be worshipped.
Greek Original:
*kubeli/ois: toi=s th=s *(re/as. *kube/lh ga\r h( *(re/a. *galai/w| *kube/lhs o)lolu/gmati. *ku/bela ga\r o)/rh *frugi/as, e)/nqa e)tima=to.
Notes:
The headword, dative plural of the adjective in question, is not otherwise attested in this *Kubeli/ois form, but, as Adler notes, Toup drew attention to the (unique) instance of *Kubelei/ois in Synesius, In Praise of Baldness PG 66.1204d.
The words for Cybele, the Phrygian and Roman Great Mother (see kappa 2586), here have a short epsilon in the second syllable. The Galli were her priests who had castrated themselves to bring themselves closer to their goddess and to the presexual nature of the origin of life, as described by St. Hippolytus in his account of the Naassene heresy.
[1] From an epigram of Rhianus (fr.67 = Greek Anthology 6.173.3). The adjective should be spelled with two lambdas: see gamma 23. On this epigram, wherein an attendant of Kybele dedicates her hair upon retiring from the cult, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 176), (vol. II, 506-507), and further excerpts at omicron 540 and theta 7.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; geography; meter and music; poetry; religion; rhetoric; women
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 17 December 2001@02:50:11.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 11 September 2002@09:40:04.
David Whitehead (another note; tweaking) on 19 March 2013@08:32:58.
David Whitehead (tweaked hw and tr; expanded primary note; another keyword) on 2 April 2014@07:39:31.
David Whitehead (codings) on 2 May 2016@10:53:43.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 19 March 2022@17:47:42.

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