re cybele and transgender sexualism in article raven aims unc edu fhunt med unc edu freb hunt writes is there some relation between the name cybele and the phenemenon of the sibyl your paragraph above seems to indicate there might be the oed gives the etymology of sibyl as coming from the ancient greek sigma iota beta upsilon lambda lambda alpha s i b ih l l a which is claimed to come from the doric sigma iota omicron beta upsilon lambda lambda alpha s i o b ih l l a which if i read it properly in turn came from the attican athenian theta epsilon omicron beta omicron upsilon lambda eta th eh o b o ih l ae i don t know much about attis but it wouldn t surprise me to learn that this god was tied to the athenian capital alpha tau tau iota kappa upsilon sigma a t t i k u s the oed does not list any etymology for cybele since that is a propper noun but i suggest that the greek spelling of that word would be much closer to the anticedants of sibyl than the two words are now perhaps cybele is a french or latin spelling
