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		But the foster parents of Attis sent him to Pessinos, where he was to wed the king's daughter.
		According to some versions the King of Pessinos was Midas.
		At the temple of Cybele/Rhea in Pessinos, the mother of the gods was still called Agdistis, the geographer Strabo recounted.
	www.allwords.org /at/attis.html (586 words)

	Wikipedia: Cybele
		At Pessinos in Phrygia, an archaic version of Cybele had been venerated as Agdistis since archaic times.
		In Phrygia Rhea/Cybele was venerated as Agdistis, with a temple at the great trading city Pessinos, mentioned by the geographer Strabo.
		It was at Pessinos that her son and lover Attis was about to wed the daughter of the king, when Agdistis/Cybele appeared in her awesome glory, and he castrated himself in madness.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/c/cy/cybele.html (1110 words)

	Read about Attis at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Attis and learn about Attis here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Attis, a life-death-rebirth deity, was both the son and the lover of Cybele, her eunuch attendant and driver of her lion-driven chariot; he was driven mad by her and castrated himself.
		Phrygia, associated with the great Phrygian trading city of Pessinos, which lay under the lee of Mount Agdistis.
		As neighboring Lydia came to control Phrygia, the cult of Attis was given a Lydian context too.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Attis (541 words)

	Cybele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 203 BC, the aniconic cult object that embodied the Great Mother at Pessinos was ceremoniously and reverently removed to Rome.
		Her cult had already been adopted in 5th century BC Greece, where she is often referred to euphemistically as Meter Theon Idaia ("Mother of the Gods, from Mount Ida") rather than by name.
		It was at Pessinos that her son and lover Attis was about to wed the daughter of the king, when Agdistis/Cybele appeared in her awesome glory, and he castrated himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cybele (1272 words)

	Attis
		Attis was originally a local semi-deity of Phrygia, associated with the great Phrygian trading city of Pessinos, which lay under the lee of Mount Agdistis.
		As Attis grew, his long-haired beauty was godlike, and Agdistis as Cybele, then fell in love with him.
		Just as the marriage-song was being sung, Agdistis/Cybele appeared in her transcendent power, and Attis went mad and cut off his genitals.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/a/at/attis.html (561 words)

	Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In many instances the newly acquired deities were formally invited to take up their abode in new sanctuaries at Rome.
		In 203 BC, the cult object embodying Cybele was removed from Phrygian Pessinos and ceremoniously welcomed to Rome.
		Moreover, the growth of the city attracted foreigners, who were allowed to continue the worship of their own gods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_mythology (2224 words)

	Phrygian & Greek Mythology: AGDISTIS Hermaphroditic God
		When he had grown up, Attis was sent by his relatives to Pessinos, that he might wed the king’s daughter.
		The marriage-song was being sung, when Agdistis appeared, and Attis went mad and cut off his genitals, as also did he who was giving him his daughter in marriage.
		"Pessinos [in Phrygia] is the greatest of the emporiums in that part of the world, containing a temple of the Meter Theon (Mother of the gods) [Rhea-Kybele], which is an object of great veneration.
	www.theoi.com /Phrygios/Agdistis.html (491 words)

	Reading Speaking Of... : Out in Annapolis
		In 203 B.C. those glorious copycats of antiquity, the Romans, who never missed out on the opportunity to swipe a new god or goddess if they could help it, moved the aniconic cult object that embodied the Great Mother at Pessinos ceremoniously and reverently to Rome.
		To be quite honest, Rome was the place to be if you wanted to worship as you wished.
		Scipio was ordered to bring the goddess, and in some obscure ceremony he brought the goddess and placed her in the hands of the matrons who were to bear her to her destination, the Temple of Victory on the Palatine Hill.
	www.outinannapolis.com /arts/speakingof.asp?article=4342 (1227 words)

	Phrygian & Greek Mythology: ATTIS Eunuch Daimon Attendant of Cybele
		The account of Hermesianax goes on to say that, on growing up, Attis migrated to Lydia and celebrated for the Lydians the orgies of the Mother; that he rose to such honor with her that Zeus, being wroth at it, sent a boar to destroy the tillage of the Lydians.
		Then certain Lydians, with Attis himself, were killed by the boar, and it is consistent with this that the Gauls who inhabit Pessinos abstain from pork.
		As he grew up his beauty was more than human, and Agdistis [Kybele] fell in love with him.
	www.theoi.com /Phrygios/Attis.html (1429 words)

	The Cult of Magna Mater
		The cults were widespread, and Ezekiel mentions the female worship of Tammuz in his lamentation over the spread of paganism in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 8:14).
		Around 200 BC the holy fl rock of the goddess was moved from the Phrygian city of Pessinos, which had been the previous centre of her worship.
		Rome became the new centre, and her cult grew.
	hem.bredband.net /arenamontanus/Mage/magna.html (2042 words)

	Asia Minor Coins - Photo Gallery - Pessinos
		Asia Minor Coins - Photo Gallery - Pessinos
		Pessinos (BC 1st cent) AE 24 – 26 views1st cent BC.
		Jugate draped busts R of Attis, wearing Phrygian cap, and Kybele Agditis, wearing turreted crown; crescent to lower R / Lion seated L, right paw placed on tympanon; caps of the Dioskouroi flanking, uncertain object to R. Near VF, brown patina with earthen highlights.
	asiaminorcoins.com /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=188 (113 words)

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