sources: SRC_VERMASEREN_CYBELE_ATTIS

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_VERMASEREN_CYBELE_ATTIS M.J. Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult, trans. A.M.H. Lemmers (Thames and Hudson, London, 1977)   secondary scholarship The standard monograph on the Attis myth cycle and the mysteries of Cybele and Attis in the Greco-Roman world. Vermaseren surveys all the mythological variants of Attis — the Pessinuntine version (Pausanias 7.17.9-12; Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 5.5-7), the Lydian version (Diodorus 3.58-59), and the Phrygian-Sabaziast traditions — alongside the Roman cult as instituted in 204 BCE (importation of the Magna Mater stone from Pessinus) and the later development of the taurobolium and criobolium rites. Covers the annual festival cycle: the March 15-27 festival series (Canna Intrat, Arbor Intrat, Sanguem/Day of Blood, Hilaria) that enacts Attis's death and resurrection; the role of the Galli (castrated priests) in the cult; Catullus Poem 63 as the most vivid Latin literary treatment; Ovid Fasti 4.179-246 on the pine tree and Attis myth. Cited for ENT_PHRYG_ATTIS.

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