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Attis was a boy of marvelous beauty. The tale goes on that Agdistis fell in love with him. The savage deity took the grown lad out hunting, led him into the most inaccessible wildernesses and gave him spoils of the chase. Midas, King of Pessinous, sought to separate Attis from Agdistis, and to this end gave the boy his own daughter to wife. Agdistis appeared at the wedding and drove the participants mad with the notes of a syrinx. Attis castrated himself beneath a pine-tree, crying out: “Unto thee, Agdistis!” And thus he died.
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Abstract
Attis was a boy of marvelous beauty.
The tale goes on that Agdistis fell in love with him.
The savage deity took the grown lad out hunting, led him into the most inaccessible wildernesses and gave him spoils of the chase.
Midas, King of Pessinous, sought to separate Attis from Agdistis, and to this end gave the boy his own daughter to wife.
Agdistis appeared at the wedding and drove the participants mad with the notes of a syrinx.
Attis castrated himself beneath a pine-tree, crying out: “Unto thee, Agdistis!” And thus he died.
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