A history documentary about the prominence of an Earth Mother goddess cult among the Lycians in ancient Anatolia.

A documentary which looks at the root of the Earth Mother goddess common to European pagan religions; call her Cybele, Rhea, Ceres, or whatever - she comes from Anatolia and spread out in various forms between the Neolithic and the Iron Age. One late form was Artemis of Ephesus, an Anatolian version of a Greek goddess who was then sent back to Europe in her new form. This film focuses on the Lycians, an early Indo-European people in Western Anatolia who seem to have preserved more of the pre-Indo-European Anatolian religion and culture than most. Tom Rowsell visits archaeological sites across Lycia and examines ruins and statues, reading excerpts from Ovid and Homer, in his effort to understand the Lycians, and through them, the ancient Earth Mother of Anatolia herself.