Our Cybele Key Necklace, a sweet, slightly ornate slender version of a skeleton key, a lovely symbol evocative of the tension between seeking and finding, restricting and releasing, concealing and revealing. In ancient mythology of Anatolia, (modern day Turkey), the primal nature goddess Cybele locks up the earth each winter and opens it to growth and flowering every spring.
- Our solid 10k Gold Key is approximately 3/4 "long, and 1/4" at its widest point
- Crafted on fine oxidized Sterling Cable Chain with tiny Sterling Lobster Claw
- Or, choose a 10k gold delicate cable link chain approximately 1mm in width,
- finished with a Spring Ring clasp.
Cybele was called the Queen Mother of the West, a Goddess whose likeness could be found on coins, funerary urns, effigies and in many stone sculptures in the ancient western hemisphere, where cults of Cybele were easy to find. Her vivid and forceful character was seen as a mediator between opposing worlds, such as the civilized and the wild, the living and the dead.
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