Attis

Phrygian shepherd-consort of Cybele; self-castrated and died beneath a pine, then revived as evergreen; his Galli priests re-enacted the myth.

Domains

• vegetation
• death and rebirth

Powers

• Die under the pine and revive with the spring growth

Epithets

• Ἄττις

Relations

• lover: Agdistis
• lover: Cybele

Sources

• Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult (1977)