As a Phrygian and Lydian goddess, also called Kyviris and Agdistis, she was identified, in the Greek Mythology, with the ancient goddess Rea and was also called Rea-Cybele.
Cybele was the goddess of wild nature, the Earth’s creative forces and fertility. Pindarus salutes her as “Cybele, mother of gods” (Dithyramb extract 80).
One of the most famous myths related to Cybele was the Attios myth. Attios used to be one of her favoured persons, who castrated himself in order to appease the goddess’s obsessive jealousy. The goddess buried him with mourns, but later she brought him back to life.   
The main worship place of Cybele was the town Pessinounta, in Ano Phrygia, near the Sangarius River. Her name Agdistis comes from, a sacred rock, on the mount Didymo, which is called Agdos. On the same mountain, there was also the goddess’s sacred “cave”, which is the most ancient one and where people could find, instead of her effigy, an untreated worship stone (probably an aerolith) that was carried to Rome along with the tomb of her beloved lover, Attios.  
Even when the flourishing Phrygia lost its shine, Cybele kept on being worshipped the most splendour way. King Midas was the first who built the goddess’s first temple which was decorated by the offers of the Pergamus kings and the Romans. The goddess’s worship started spreading all over the Greek colonies of the Asia Minor coastlines (Ephesus, Smyrna, Miletus, etc.) and main Greece, where she was identified with the “mother of humans and gods” and had her own Temples in Thebes, Athens, Olympia, Phygalia, etc.  
On the contrary, the Romans kept the goddess’s worship as it was adopted by the East, by renaming the priest from Kyvidoi to Galloi. .
“Cybela” was also the name of Phrygia’s other mountain where the homonym town was situated. “Cybeleia” was also the ancient town of Erythraia, in Asia Minor, opposite Chios, between the mount Mimantos and the cape Melaina, where Cybele’s worship was widely spread.