Megalesia
Megalensia - Ludi Scaenici - Megalesia - Great Mother Cybele Festival - April
The Ludi Megalenses (Megalesia), the first religious games of the Roman year, were held in honor of a Phrygian import, the Goddess Cybele, also known as Magna Mater, the Great Mother. During the Second Punic War, the Sibylline Books had revealed that Hannibal would leave Italy when the Great Mother came to Rome. So in 204, her sacred black stone was shipped to Ostia, where Scipio Nasica took custody of it and brought it to the city.