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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forAdrasteiaA Greek goddess. Dr. L. R. Farnell(Cults, vol. ii., 1896) thinks that originally the name was a local title of Cybele. The cult of Adrasteia was established near Priapus, Cyzicus, and in the Troad, and it was in these localities in particular that Cybele was worshipped. In the later period she came to be regarded as a kind of twin-sister of Nemesis and was connected sometimes with Artemis. A plausible ex-planation of this development is offered by Farnell. " Cybele ‘Adpasteia meant the goddess of the city or locality in Phrygia that took its name from the Phrygian hero Adrastus. Then when the title was detached, it came to be interpreted as " the goddess from whom one cannot run away "; and this meaning may have been assisted by the confusion between the Phrygian Adrastus and the Argive hero, whose legend was a picture of inevitable fate. When afterwards this new sense of ‘Adpasteia came into vogue, she naturally became connected with Nemesis, and so accidentally with Artemis." ADRIANISTS. The followers of a Dutch Anabaptist, Adrian Hamsted, who was for a time a minister in London. Edmund Grindal (d. 1583), Bishop of London and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, having de-posed him early in the year 1561, he returned to Holland. The Adrianists would not accept the doctrine of the miraculous birth of Jesus. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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