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Zeus. He was never worshipped independently, however, though the worship of the Great Mother was not always accompanied by his. He was confused with See also:

Pan, Sabazios, Men and Adonis, and there were resemblances between the orgiastic features of his worship and that, of See also:

DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus. His resemblance to Adonis has led to the theory that the names of the two are identical, and that Attis is only the Semitic See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion of Syrian Aphrodite grafted on to the Phrygian Great Mother worship (Haakh, Stuttgarter-Philolog.-Vers., 18J7, 176 ff.). It is likely, however, that Attis, like the Great Mother, was indigenous to See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

Minor, adopted by the invading Phrygians, and blended by them with a deity of their own. Legends.—According to See also:

PAUSANIAS

Pausanias (vii. 17), Attis was a beautiful youth See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of the daughter of the See also:

RIVER

river Sangarius, who was descended from the hermaphroditic Agdistis, a See also:

monster sprung from the earth by the See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed of Zeus. Having become enamoured of Attis, Agdistis struck him with frenzy as he was about to wed the See also:

king's daughter, with the result that he deprived himself of manhood and died. Agdistis in repentance prevailed upon Zeus to See also:

grant that the See also:

BODY

body of the youth should never decay or See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste.

In See also:

Arnobius (v. 5-8) Attis emasculates himself under a See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine See also:

tree, which the Great Mother bears into her See also:

cave as she and Agdistis together wildly lament the See also:

DEATH

death of the youth. Zeus grants the See also:

PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition as in the version of Pausanias, but permits the See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair of Attis to grow, and his little See also:

FINGER

finger to move. The little finger, digitus, SaicrvXos, is interpreted as the phallus by Georg Kaibel (Gottinger Nachrichten, 1901, p. 513). In Diodorus (iii. 58, 59) the Mother is the carnal See also:

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

lover of Attis, and, when her See also:

FATHER

father the king discovers her See also:

FAULT (Mid. Eng. faute, through the French, from the popular Latin use of fallere, to fail; the originallof the Latin being replaced in English in the 15th century)

fault and kills her lover, roams the earth in See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild grief. In See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid (See also:

FASTI

Fasti, iv. 223 ff.) she is inspired with chaste love for him, which he pledges himself to reciprocate. On his proving unfaithful, the Great Mother slays the nymph with whom he has sinned, whereupon in madness he mutilates himself as a See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty. Another See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend(Pans. vii. 17), showing the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the Aphrodite-Adonis myth, relates that Attis, the impotent son of the Phrygian Calaus, went into See also:

LYDIA

Lydia to See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

institute the' worship of the Great Mother, and was there slain by a See also:

BOAR (0. Eng. bar; the word is found only in W. Ger. languages, cf. Dutch beer, Ger. Eber)

boar sent by Zeus.

See GREAT MOTHER OF' THE GODS; J. G. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris (1906). (G.

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