Attis’s Family Tree

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Family

• Magna Mater(spouse)— Consort

  Magna Mater took the beautiful Phrygian shepherd Attis as her beloved, binding him to her with a vow of eternal fidelity.

• Nana(parent)— Miraculous

  Nana conceived Attis after placing a ripe almond from the tree that grew from Agdistis's severed genitals against her bosom, bearing him without any mortal father.

  ⚠ Ovid's Fasti 4.223 omits Nana entirely and gives no parentage for Attis; Arnobius and Pausanias preserve the Phrygian account with Nana.

• Sagaritis(spouse)— Consort

  Attis broke his vow of fidelity to Magna Mater by taking the tree nymph Sagaritis as his lover in the Phrygian woods.

Slain by

• Magna Mater

  Magna Mater struck Attis with divine madness for breaking his vow of faithfulness, and the frenzied youth castrated himself beneath a pine tree and bled to death on the Phrygian hillside.

Equivalent to

• Attis(Greek)

  Attis is the same Phrygian youth in both Greek and Roman traditions. His myth of self-castration and death was adopted into Roman cult practice alongside Magna Mater's worship.