Pessinus

Midas was a King of Phrygia residing in Pessinus, which is now Ballihisar, Turkey.

Dogfish Head - Midas Touch 2007

Midas was a King of Phrygia residing in Pessinus, which is now Ballihisar, Turkey.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Pessinus, the center of the cult of Cybele in Phyrgia featured a black meteorite that was worshipped as the Goddess, Herself.

Donna Henes: Showered With Stars 2010

Pessinus, the center of the cult of Cybele in Phyrgia featured a black meteorite that was worshipped as the Goddess, Herself.

Donna Henes: Showered With Stars 2010

Its principle cities were Ancyra (now the capital city of the modern Turkey), Pessinus, and Tavium.

Galatians ��� where was Paul���s epistle destined to? 2008

The stone associated with Cybele's worship was, originally, probably at Pessinus but perhaps at Pergamum or on Mount Ida.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

Deities of other cultures known to have been associated with stones include Aphrodite at Paphos, Cybele at Pessinus and later Rome, Astarte at Byblos and the famous Artemis/Diana of Ephesus.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

Over the aeons she had lost her power save in places like the two Comanas, one here in Cappadocia, the other north in Pontus, and in Pessinus, not far from where Alexander the Great had cut the Gordian knot with his sword.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Over the aeons she had lost her power save in places like the two Comanas, one here in Cappadocia, the other north in Pontus, and in Pessinus, not far from where Alexander the Great had cut the Gordian knot with his sword.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

In his youth he had studied at the College of the Mogbeds, at Borsippa, near Babylon; had then visited Samothrace, Pessinus, Ephesus, Thessaly, Judaea, and the temples of the Nabathae, which are lost in the sands; and had travelled on foot along the banks of the Nile from the cataracts to the sea.

Salammbo 2003