Agdistis’s Connections

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Aspect of

• Cybele

  Some traditions identify Agdistis with Cybele. In Pausanias's account, after the gods castrated the hermaphroditic Agdistis, the being became female and was worshipped as the Great Mother under the name Cybele.

Associated with

• Attis

  Attis was born from Agdistis's blood after the gods castrated the hermaphroditic deity. An almond tree grew from the wound, and when Nana ate its fruit, she conceived Attis.