Palm Sunday and the myths of Rome

Today is Palm Sunday. The most solemn week of the Christian year Holy week is the week leading up to Easter, and is the week during which Christians particularly remember the last week of Jesus's life. Holy week begins on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday commemorates Christ's triumphant arrival in Jerusalem to the cheers of the crowd. The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
"Hosanna!"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Blessed is the King of Israel!"
(John 12: 12-13)

Later in that week many of the people in that cheering crowd would be among those shouting that Jesus should be executed.

~ From the BBC Religions and Ethics Page

In ancient Rome, Today (4/4) is the first day of Megalesia, a week-long festival in honor of Cybele, the Magna Mater (Great Mother) worshipped throughout the Roman Empire. Megalesia was said to have marked the arrival in Rome of Cybele's image, sent from her home temple in Phrygia (in the western region of modern Turkey).
~ From the Universal Festival Calendar by Dan Furst