BOOK SECOND. ATTIS. I. THE MYTH AND RITUAL OF ATTIS. Attis the Phrygian counterpart of Adonis, His relation to Cybele, His miraculous birth, His death, Cybele and Attis at Rome, Their spring festival, The day of blood, Eunuch priests in the service of Asiatic goddesses, The sacrifice of virility, The mourning for Attis, His resurrection, His mysteries, the sacrament and the baptism of blood, Diffusion of his religion from the Vatican.
