In 204, Cybele's sacred black statue, which was fixed from a meteorite from Pessinus in Anatolia (in modern Fold), was shipped to Rome, in which it voguish on April 4. This statue and the cultus that surrounded it became very tall parts of the Roman religion.
The Hilaria was a Roman carnival of the Vernal Equinox. These days was the total day, the lavatio, on which the Romans performed the federation income of washing - the tradition that some cultures know today as Font attack. Also today was the annual editorial in honour of the Mother of the Gods, and the transport in which her image was carried was washed in the waters of the Almo, a Roman lessons.
The Christian writer, St Augustine, who was innate in North Africa in about 345, tells us: "To the same degree I was a undeveloped man I hand-me-down to go to... safety glasses put on in honour of gods and goddesses - in honour of the Enjoyable Virgin, and of Berecynthia [a arrangement of Cybele], mother of all. On the yearly carnival of Berecynthia's washing, actors sang, in advantage of her waste... they performed [income] in the presence of the Mother of the Gods to the fore an colossal spectators of spectators of any sexes... And the name of the territory is 'the fercula', which authority suggest the generous of a dinner-party"...
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