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n. - Asiatic epithet for Rhea or Cybele.

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  • Agdistis, whom the Greeks called Cybele, was the Great Mother of the gods.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The story of Agdistis and Atys is apparently a myth of the generative powers of nature.
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