These words are taken from a short choric dance-song addressed to Kybele. The verses are of singular interest: the epithets express the inner being of the Great Mother, as it was conceived by her Phrygian worshippers, and the local colouring is unexpectedly faithful; there can be no doubt for instance that Sophokles distinguished accurately between Kybele and Demeter. The chorus is thus of high historical value to the student of religions: we have very little evidence of such an early date from the country itself and we know even less of the relations, sentimental and other, then existing between Athens and Phrygia. The next Attic witness—Demosthenes—heaps ridicule upon the Phrygian mysteries. A century more of Persian rule may have been accompanied by a general deterioration of the Anatolian mysteries: in the time of Sophokles more visible relics of the glories of Lydia and Phrygia may have been standing, but this is a matter of speculation.