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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Dindymon was a mountain in eastern Phrygia
Phrygia

In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. The Phrygians initially lived in the Southern Balkans; according to Herodotus, under the name of Bryges, changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the Hellespont....
, later part of Galatia
Galatia

Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia, an ancient region of Asia Minor, was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC....
, that was later called Agdistis
Agdistis

Agdistis was a deity of Greek mythology, Roman mythology and Anatolian mythology, possessing both male and female genitalia, con?nected with the Phrygian worship of Attis and Cybele....
, sacred to the "mountain mother", Cybele
Cybele

Cybele , was the Phrygian deification of the Earth Mother. As with Greek Gaia , or her Minoan civilization equivalent Rhea , Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals ....
, whom the Hellenes knew as Rhea
Rhea

Rhea commonly refers to:* Rhea , moon of Saturn* Rhea , a Titan in Greek mythologyRhea may also refer to:...
. Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 sited Dindymon above Pessinos, sacred to Cybele,

A Mount Dindymon might also be placed on the peninsula of Cyzicus
Cyzicus

Cyzicus was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia, situated in Balikesir Province on the shoreward side of the present peninsula of Kapu-Dagh , which is said to have been originally an island in the Sea of Marmara, and to have been artificially connected with the mainland in historic times....
 facing the Sea of Marmara
Sea of Marmara

The Sea of Marmara , also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, and in the context of classical antiquity as Propontis , is the inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey's Asian and European parts....
, as in Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius , early 3rd century BCE - after 246 BCE, was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria....
' Argonautica, or by Stephanus Byzantinicus further south, in the Troad, thus near Mount Ida
Mount Ida

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Mount Ida, Turkey in Classical times....
. Argonautica book II sets a scene at Mount Dindymon, where Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
 placates the goddess of the mountain, "the mother of all the blessed gods, where she sits enthroned".






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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Dindymon was a mountain in eastern Phrygia
Phrygia

In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. The Phrygians initially lived in the Southern Balkans; according to Herodotus, under the name of Bryges, changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the Hellespont....
, later part of Galatia
Galatia

Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia, an ancient region of Asia Minor, was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC....
, that was later called Agdistis
Agdistis

Agdistis was a deity of Greek mythology, Roman mythology and Anatolian mythology, possessing both male and female genitalia, con?nected with the Phrygian worship of Attis and Cybele....
, sacred to the "mountain mother", Cybele
Cybele

Cybele , was the Phrygian deification of the Earth Mother. As with Greek Gaia , or her Minoan civilization equivalent Rhea , Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals ....
, whom the Hellenes knew as Rhea
Rhea

Rhea commonly refers to:* Rhea , moon of Saturn* Rhea , a Titan in Greek mythologyRhea may also refer to:...
. Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 sited Dindymon above Pessinos, sacred to Cybele,

A Mount Dindymon might also be placed on the peninsula of Cyzicus
Cyzicus

Cyzicus was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia, situated in Balikesir Province on the shoreward side of the present peninsula of Kapu-Dagh , which is said to have been originally an island in the Sea of Marmara, and to have been artificially connected with the mainland in historic times....
 facing the Sea of Marmara
Sea of Marmara

The Sea of Marmara , also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, and in the context of classical antiquity as Propontis , is the inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey's Asian and European parts....
, as in Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius , early 3rd century BCE - after 246 BCE, was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria....
' Argonautica, or by Stephanus Byzantinicus further south, in the Troad, thus near Mount Ida
Mount Ida

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Mount Ida, Turkey in Classical times....
. Argonautica book II sets a scene at Mount Dindymon, where Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
 placates the goddess of the mountain, "the mother of all the blessed gods, where she sits enthroned". identified as "Dindymene the mother, Lady of many names," among which was Rhea
Rhea

Rhea commonly refers to:* Rhea , moon of Saturn* Rhea , a Titan in Greek mythologyRhea may also refer to:...
.

The various applications of Dindymon, as the mountain of the Anatolian Mother Goddess
Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a term used to refer to any goddess associated with motherhood, fertility, creation or the bountiful embodiment of the Earth....
, the "Mountain Mother", is explained by Robinson Ellis: "The name Dindymenian mother would in the first instance no doubt be connected with the earliest seat of the worship, the Phrygian Dindymon, but as soon as the worship spread farther and the name of Dindymon with it, the Goddess of Dindymon would lose its original definiteness and be variously applied by different writers."