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AbstractAttis was the youthful male companion of the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele, whose origins seem to lie in the Greek world; he was an especially visible figure in Rome. He was regularly depicted with a distinctive costume of long tunic, leggings, and a pointed cap. In the legendary tradition Attis castrated himself after he was driven mad by Cybele; and his priests, known as Galli, also practiced self‐castration, supposedly in imitation. Originally worshipped jointly with the Phrygian Mother, by the late empire he had acquired his own cult and festival in March.
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AbstractAttis was the youthful male companion of the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele, whose origins seem to lie in the Greek world; he was an especially visible figure in Rome.
He was regularly depicted with a distinctive costume of long tunic, leggings, and a pointed cap.
In the legendary tradition Attis castrated himself after he was driven mad by Cybele; and his priests, known as Galli, also practiced self‐castration, supposedly in imitation.
Originally worshipped jointly with the Phrygian Mother, by the late empire he had acquired his own cult and festival in March.
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