Attes into her service, and made him her Priest. Those of that order were called Matragyrte, as either begging pub∣lickly, or going from house to house to demand things ne∣cessary for her Offerings: For the Greek word Meter sig∣nifieth Mater, or Mother, and Agartes, Praestigiator or Men∣dicus, a Jugler or Beggar. She was call'd by divers names, as Proserpina, Isis, Cybele, Idea, Berecthia, Tellus, Rhaea, Vesta, Pandora, Phrigia, Pylena, Dindymena, and Pessinuntia: some∣times of the places, sometimes of the causes. Rhaea bearing young Jupiter in her womb, and ready to be delivered: knowing the predicted cruelty of Saturn, who commanded him to be slain, retired her selfe to Thaumasius a mountain in Arcadia, fortified by Hoptodamus and his fellow giants, lest Saturn should come with any forcible hostility to op∣presse her: this mountain was not far distant from the hill Molossus in a part of Lysia, where Jupiter was born, and Saturn there deluded; into which place it is not lawfull for any man to enter, only women. Lucian in Nigrino saith, that the Phrygian pipe was only sufficient to yield musick to her sacrifices, for that was no sooner heard, but they fell into a divine rapture resembling madnesse, neither was the Pine only sacred to her,De diis. l. 3 but the Oake, as witnesseth Apol∣lodorus. Euphorion attributes to her the Vine,Argon. l. 1. because out of that wood her Effigies was alwaies cut. Apollonius left re∣corded▪ that the Milesian Priests accustomed first to sacri∣fice to Taetia and Silaenus, and after to Rhaea, the mother of the gods, whose altars were deckt and adorned with Oaken bowes. By Rhaea is meant the earth, or that strength of the earth which is most pertinent and available in the genera∣tion of things: She is drawn in a Charriot, because the globe of the earth hangs in the middle of the aire, without supporture, neither inclining or declining to one part or another, and that by nature. About her chariot are wild beasts, the reason is, she is the producter and nourisher of all creatures whatsoever. Deservedly she wears a Crown of Towers and Turrets, being the Queen and Mistresse of so many Towns, Castles, and Cities. By the noise of musick and clamours at her sacrifices, is observed the whistling and blustring of the winds, who are necessary in all the affairs of nature, especially in heat and cold, bearing the show∣ers and tempests to and fro upon their wings, to make foul weather in one place, and a cleer skie in another. Her Cha∣riot is drawn with four Lions, which imports those foure 0