The cult of Cybele was a cult sanctioned by the Roman Senate and Cybele herself was not only a fertility goddess but the mistress of wild nature and protectress in times of war.
While the members of the Senate's aristocratic faction, or optimates, seethed, the minions of the so-called First Triumvirate maintained their stranglehold on Roman politics.
Severus marched on Rome whilst also possessing greater diplomacy skills, and he was recognized by the Senate as the new Emperor to Rome, which put an end to the period now known as the Year of Five Emperors.
On the other side were the Senatorial optimates, allied with the assassins of Caesar or the so-called republicans, led by the silver-tongued old statesman Cicero.
The Roman provinces were ruled for Rome's benefit alone. The proconsuls and propraetors themselves were accountable only to the Roman Senate, of which they were already influential members.
The senatorial class was composed of all descendants of former magistrates, but in principle restricted to those who, at least officially, stayed out of business life in order to play a role in the Senate.
So that Othello, now summoned before the senate, stood in their presence at once as a candidate for a great state employment and as a culprit charged with offenses which by the laws of Venice were made capital.
The power of the Virgin had been plainly One, embracing all human activity; while the power of the Senate, or its deity, seemed — might one say — to be more or less ashamed of man and his work.
And this is something, in this period when Roman senators, equestrians, etc, were out of Rome, when they had to go off and govern provinces or undertake military campaigns, their wives can't go with them in this period.