Agdistis

deity mountain Greek single tradition · 4

Agdistis is linked to the cult of a great mother goddess.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 400
Historical notes
Referenced in context of Classical Antiquity and Graeco-Roman antiquity.

Relationships

syncretized with
Cybele
manifests as
Cybele
enemy of
Olympian gods
manifested by
Cybele

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Sources

Source passages

“Agdistis”

#18342 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“He links Ishtar, Tammuz, Innini, Ma (Cappadocia), Mami, Dingir-Mah, Cybele, Agdistis, Pessinuntica and the Idaean Mother to the cult of a great mother goddess.”

#20705 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Before him stands a Phrygian goddess (identified by the inscription as Agdistis) who carries a tympanon in her left hand. With her right, she hands him a jug, as if to welcome him into her cult with a share of her own libation.”

#28030 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The mountain was personified as a daemon, whom foreigners associated with the Great Mother Cybele. In the late 4th century BCE, a cult of Attis became a feature of the Greek world. The story of his origins at Agdistis, as recorded by the traveller Pausanias, have some distinctly non-Greek elements.”

#37578 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001