Agdistis
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
- co occurs with
- Aphrodite of the Gardens, Hannahannah, Innini, Mami, Pessinuntica, the Idaean Mother, Dingirmah, Enki, An, Inanna, Ma, Nanna, Tammuz, Kubaba, Ištar, Attis, Nanã, Zeus
- syncretized with
- Cybele
- manifests as
- Cybele
- enemy of
- Olympian gods
- manifested by
- Cybele
Mentioned by
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