![]() KEYWORDS Roman period, Celeia, Noricum, Savus and Adsalluta, Magna Mater (Cybele). Reminiscences of the worship of Cybele have survived from antiquity and can be identified in the custom of the ‘pinewood marriage’ during the Carnival time at Ptuj (Roman Poetovio). The evidence shows that cult of the Great Mother soon also became popular in the Celtic provinces, and that its popularity could in some cases have eventually outshone various local Celtic goddesses. ![]() From the unexpected Magna Mater dedication it could be inferred that the Great Mother was also worshipped at this sacred place alongside the water divinities, or that the worship of the latter was later replaced by that of the Magna Mater, or else that an additional small sanctuary was erected to her. ![]() ![]() Rescue excavations, during which an altar to the Magna Mater was discovered, were carried out in 1994 in the sanctuary area. Until recently, nine altars dedicated to Savus and/or Adsalluta were known from their (?) sanctuary at the hamlet of Sava near Podkraj opposite Hrastnik (the territory of Celeia in Noricum, present-day Celje in Slovenia), situated above the river Savus (the Sava), by a section of dangerous rapids and waterfalls. ![]()
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