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>Cybele
http://www.theoi.com/Cult/KybeleCult.html
KYBELE (Cybele) was the great Phrygian mother of the gods, and goddess of motherhood, fertility and the mountain wilds.
Her orgiastic cult dominated the central and north-western regions of Anatolia and was introduced to Greece via the island of Samothrake and the Boiotian town of Thebes.
The Phrygian Orgia were overseen by eunuch priests called Gallai who led devotees in nocturnal mountain rites involving much drinking, and frantic dancing accompanied by the music of rattles, kettledrums, flutes and castenets and the ritual cry "evoe saboe," "hyes attes, attes hyes."
The rites also involved ritual mutulation, ranging from flaggelation to the act of self-castration performed by the Gallai priests.