The Galli are Magna Mater's devoted eunuch priests, bound to her service by the primal act of self-castration that recalls Attis's death beneath the sacred pine.
When the sacred stone of Magna Mater arrived in Rome in 204 BCE, the Galli accompanied it as the goddess's Phrygian priests. Claudia Quinta's miracle of freeing the grounded ship occurred as the Galli and the stone were being transported up the Tiber.
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