. ther of forests (ISai) and thus particularlyconnected with the Mount Ida in Crete andthe Phrygian Ida. The principal seat of herworship was Pessinus, and from Mount Agdus(a part of Mount Dindymus) in that districtshe was called Agdistis (Strab. p. 567), but inthe legend of her love for Attis, which grew outof an allegory about the productiveness ofnature, Agdistis appears as a separate person-age [see Attis]. Here she was worshippedunder the image of a rude block of stone, andher attendant priests were the emasculatedTaAAoi. In Lyd
. ther of forests (ISai) and thus particularlyconnected with the Mount Ida in Crete andthe Phrygian Ida. The principal seat of herworship was Pessinus, and from Mount Agdus(a part of Mount Dindymus) in that districtshe was called Agdistis (Strab. p. 567), but inthe legend of her love for Attis, which grew outof an allegory about the productiveness ofnature, Agdistis appears as a separate person-age [see Attis]. Here she was worshippedunder the image of a rude block of stone, andher attendant priests were the emasculatedTaAAoi. In Lydia the principal seat of herworship was Mount Tmolus, and in Lydianlegend she was called the nurse or foster-mother of Dionysus, because as earth-goddessshe had to do with the vine as with other , as giver of wealth, she became recognisedin the great cities which grew up as thegoddess of settled life also and of towns,whence her crown of walled cities (cf. 625). She was conceived to be accompaniedby the Curetes, who are connected with the. Rhea, or Cybelo. (From a Roman birth and bringing up of Zeus in Crete, and inPhrygia by the Corybantes, the Idaean Dactyli,Atys, and Agdistis. The Corybantes were herenthusiastic priests, who with drums, cymbals,horns, and in full armour, performed their orgi-astic dances in the forests and on the moun-tains of Phrygia. [Corybantes ; Curetes ;Dactyli.] This form of worship of Rhea-Cybele,borrowedfrom Asia, was adopted in Greece,where her temple was called The Temple ofthe Mother (ix-qrpwov). She was connected inritual with Dionysus, and with Demeter, herdaughter, and is even spoken of as Earth herself(Soph. Phil. 391). At Athens in especial hersanctuary (the Metroon : see p. 143, b), whichwas also the repository of the state archives,contained her statue by Phidias (according toPlin. xxxvi. 17, by Agoracritus) enthroned,with cymbals in her hand and lions at her feet(Paus. i. 3, 5; Arrian, Peripl. Pont. 9). It isprob
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