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  • Anatolian religion
    / The Phrygians

    …the process by which this matronly figure was transformed into the Mountain Mother of the Phrygians can only be surmised.

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    …the process by which this matronly figure was transformed into the Mountain Mother of the Phrygians can only be surmised.

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  • Hebat

    …goddess of Comana was then Ma, a warlike deity identified by the Greeks with Enyo and by the Romans with Bellona. From this it may perhaps be inferred that Hebat also had warlike characteristics, though this aspect of her nature is not apparent in the extant texts. Her name has…

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    …goddess of Comana was then Ma, a warlike deity identified by the Greeks with Enyo and by the Romans with Bellona. From this it may perhaps be inferred that Hebat also had warlike characteristics, though this aspect of her nature is not apparent in the extant texts. Her name has…

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