TYPE: Mother Goddess
ORIGIN: Hittite/Hurrian
INFORMATION:
Described as the "great mother". In the legend of Telepinu, the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him. When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, the god vents his rage on the natural world.
NOTE: The priestesses of the Phyrgian mother goddess Kybele were, according to the Roman writer Lactantius, melissai or bees.