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  • Some confirmation of this conjecture is furnished by the savage story that the mother of Attis conceived by putting in her bosom a pomegranate sprung from the severed genitals of a man-monster named Agdestis, a sort of double of Attis.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Some confirmation of this conjecture is furnished by the savage story that the mother of Attis conceived by putting in her bosom a pomegranate sprung from the severed genitals of a man-monster named Agdestis, a sort of double of Attis.

    Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis 1922

  • Some confirmation of this conjecture is furnished by the savage story that the mother of Attis conceived by putting in her bosom a pomegranate sprung from the severed genitals of a man-monster named Agdestis, a sort of double of Attis.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • Attis conceived by putting in her bosom a pomegranate sprung from the severed genitals of a man-monster named Agdestis, a sort of double of Attis.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • Agdestis, qui ante amore eius arserat, eo craidem tempore, qtlo Attis Pea - sinunte erat, Midae regis filiam ducturus.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812

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