entities: ENT_PHRYG_AGDISTIS

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_PHRYG_AGDISTIS Agdistis   Phrygian God Primordial Deity primordial hermaphrodite; castration; origin of Attis; Pessinuntine myth       C           The primordial hermaphroditic deity of the Phrygian myth cycle; described by Pausanias (7.17.10-12) and Arnobius (Adversus Nationes 5.5-7) as the original form of Cybele/Attis. Agdistis was born from the earth when Zeus's seed fell on the rock of Agdos near Pessinus; the gods, fearing the hermaphroditic being, castrated it, from whose severed genitals sprang the almond tree — and from the almond tree, Attis. Agdistis then fell in love with Attis, which led to his self-castration. The myth is uniquely Phrygian/Pessinian; it does not appear in the Olympian Greek tradition. The "Pessinuntine myth" as reconstructed from Pausanias and Arnobius is the fullest account of the indigenous Phrygian theological origin of the Cybele-Attis complex. Roller (1999) pp. 139-149. deity

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