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Visual depiction of Attis

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Vol. II · Polytheism · love

Attis

Phrygian dying and rising fertility god


beneath a sacred pine tree with violets blooming from his wound, Cybele watching as he returns with spring

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
love

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.