Agdistis

Agdistis, whom the Greeks called Cybele, was the Great Mother of the gods.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Closer to home, Mellaart saw a resemblance between the Çatalhöyük Mother Goddess and Agdistis, who was first worshipped in the land of Phrygia, in what is today west central Turkey.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Phrygian myth relates that Agdistis, upon learning that Attis was about to marry, suffered a fit of jealousy and struck her son with a spell of madness, whereupon the crazed Attis castrated himself under a pine tree.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Pessinonte, on the southern slope of Mt. Dindymus and the left bank of the Sangarius, was an ancient city, having commercial but chiefly religious importance, owing to the cult of Cybele under the title of Agdistis, whose statue, or rather a stone supposed to represent her, was considered to have fallen from heaven.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

At the annual festivals of the Phrygian Goddess Amma (Agdistis) it was the custom of young men to make eunuchs of themselves with sharp shells, and a similar rite was recorded among Phoenicians.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Amma (Agdistis) it was the custom of young men to make eunuchs of themselves with sharp shells, and a similar rite was recorded among

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Agdistis _mugitibus editis multis_, according to Arnobius,

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

The story of Agdistis and Atys is apparently a myth of the generative powers of nature.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Cybele being informed of this, hastened to Pessinus, and, destroying the gates, met with Attis, who had concealed himself behind a pine tree, and caused him to be emasculated; on which Agdistis committed self-destruction in a fit of sorrow.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

They say that a female called Nana, by touching a pomegranate or an almond tree, which grew from the blood of Agdistis whom Bacchus had slain, conceived Attis, who afterwards became very dear to Cybele.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847