Thanks Axo. It's certainly a Round Table that could never have happened on r/conspiracy!! What with "anti-evil", brigades and bots etc.

I'll start things off with another quote from Genuflect by Tracy Twyman, the occult historian who died suspiciously a couple of years ago, just after Issac Kappy, and soon after she had begun researching Kappys claims and revelations about various celebrities.

This was her last book. It's fiction, but it's full of factual content she had researched over the years. It's like a more disturbing version of a Dan Brown book, and the main character is basically Twyman herself. Here she expounds on the priesthood of some of these pre-Christian mystery religions / cults. In fact she says Mithraism would have been the dominant religious force at the end of the Roman empire, until its rival, Christianity, with which it shared mutual influence, eclipsed it altogether.

"...initiates of Cybele’s priesthood went through an orgiastic public ritual in which they were expected to go mad on drugs and wine. They would then become possessed by the goddess, just like Attis, so that they would be inspired to castrate themselves just like he did. These priests were thereafter referred to as women, just like the Gallu priests of Sumer before them, and just like a post‐op transgender person would be in modern times.

Like the Gallu, they dressed in women’s clothes, spoke in affected effeminate voices, and sang in an effeminate manner that was supposed to be pleasing to the goddess. Earlier, in the first century BC, another Roman poet, Gaius Valerius Catullus, had written in Carmina, Poem 63 about how Attis castrated himself and thus became a priestess of Cybele. From that point on, she was thereby immediately referred to as feminine:

"Over the vast main borne by swift‐sailing ship, Attis, as with hasty hurried foot he reached the Phrygian wood and gained the tree‐girt gloomy sanctuary of the Goddess, there roused by rabid rage and mind astray, with sharp‐edged flint downwards dashed his burden of virility. Then as he felt his limbs were left without their manhood, and the fresh spilt blood staining the soil, with bloodless hand she hastily took a tambour light to hold, your tambourine, Cybele, your initiate rite, and with feeble fingers beating the hollowed bullock’s back, she rose up quivering…"

Later, when her reason returned to her, she lamented the loss of her penis and the fact that she was now a “slave” to the mother goddess:

Then when from quiet rest torn, her delirium over, Attis at once recalled to mind her deed, and with lucid thought saw what she had lost, and where she stood, with heaving heart she backwards traced her steps to the landing‐place. There, gazing over the vast main with tear‐filled eyes, with saddened voice in tristful soliloquy thus did she lament…

This all appears to be an echo of the earliest versions of the Cybele myth, influenced more closely by the Phrygian version. In these, she was called “Agditis,” and was said to have originated in the realm of the gods. She had been formed when some of Zeus’ semen fell upon a rock called “Agdo.” But the other gods found Agditis to be a freak, and so they had her castrated, and cast her down to Earth. This, then, would explain why Cybele was sometimes represented by a rock, particularly a meteorite—a “stone that fell from heaven.”