Shin Megami Tensei V daily demon vol. 132 – Cybele

The latest demon trailer for Shin Megami Tensei V has now arrived, which gives us a look at Cybele. Originally, the creature appeared in Megami Tensei II on the Famicom.

Some background information about Cybele is included on the Megami Tensei Wiki. Read a bit more about the demon below.

Cybele is the deity of Phrygia, a realm in ancient Anatolia, that represents the idea of a mother goddess, similar to Gaia of the Greeks. Cybele is also associated with various natural elements, including wildlife and vegetation. Wild cats in particular were often associated with her. It’s possible she was derived from an earlier mostly Hittite goddess, Kubaba.

In Greece, Cybele was a protector of several city-states, one of which is Athens. Her most celebrated Greek rites and processions showed her as a foreign and exotic mystery-goddess. She arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine and a disorderly, ecstatic following. She was unique among deities worshiped by the Greeks as she had a transgendered, or eunuch, priesthood. Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine, castrated, Phrygian shepherd-consort known as Attis. She is associated with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature and wild animals, namely lions.

In Rome she was known as Magna Mater, meaning Great Mother. They would reinvent her as a Trojan goddess, which made her a goddess ancestor of the Roman people by way of the Trojan prince Aeneas. With Rome’s eventual dominance over the Mediterranean, a Roman version of Cybele’s cult would spread throughout the entire empire.

And here’s a look at the Shin Megami Tensei V demon trailer for Cybele:

Shin Megami Tensei V will be out for Switch November 12. More coverage with all past demon trailers can be found here.