. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ame of Midas, and seems to show that we have before usa commemorative monument, piously dedicated by a certainAtes in honour of the Phrygian hero. Elsewhere we come upon the outlines of adraped female form,sometimes alone, some-times accompanied bytwo lions, or of a manclothed in a short tunic,holding a sort of straightsceptre in his hand, andwe fancy that we havethe image of a god beforeour eyes, though wecannot say which of thedeities handed down bytradition it may repre-sent. The religion of thePhrygians is shrouded inthe same myst
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ame of Midas, and seems to show that we have before usa commemorative monument, piously dedicated by a certainAtes in honour of the Phrygian hero. Elsewhere we come upon the outlines of adraped female form,sometimes alone, some-times accompanied bytwo lions, or of a manclothed in a short tunic,holding a sort of straightsceptre in his hand, andwe fancy that we havethe image of a god beforeour eyes, though wecannot say which of thedeities handed down bytradition it may repre-sent. The religion of thePhrygians is shrouded inthe same mystery as theircivilisation and their art, and presents a curious mixture ofEuropean and Asianic elements. The old aboriginal raceshad worshipped from time immemorial a certain mother-goddess, Mfi,, or Amma, the black earth, which brings forthwithout ceasing, and nourishes all living things. Hercentral place of worship seems, originally, to have been inthe region of the Anti-taurus, and it was there that her ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a sketch by A PHRYGIAN GOD. PHRYGIAN BELIEFS AND MONUMENTS 97 sacred cities—Tyana, Venasa, and the Cappadooian Comana—were to be found as late as Eoman times ; in these townsher priests were regarded as kings, and thousands of herpriestesses spent lives of prostitution in her service; buther sanctuaries, with their special rites and regulations,were scattered over the whole peninsula. She was some-times worshippedunder the form ofa meteoric stone, orbetyle similar tothose found in Ca-naan ; ^ more fre-quently she wasrepresented in fe-male shape, withattendant hens, orplaced erect on aHon in the attitudeof walking. A moon-god, Mgn, shareddivine honours withher, and with agoddess Nana whose son Atys had been the only loveof Md, and the victim of her passion. We are told thatshe compelled him to emasculate himself in a fit of mad
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