In a ritual reenactment of his death, a pine tree decked with wreaths of violets and swathed in woollen bands like a corpse was given blood offerings from priests who gashed themselves on the Day of Blood.
He was the son of the River-god Sangarios's daughter Nana, who conceived when she hid an almond or pomegranate in her lap. In a ritual reenactment of his death, a pine tree decked with wreaths of violets and swathed in woollen bands like a corpse was given blood offerings from priests who gashed themselves on the Day of Blood. He died when, in a fit of madness, he castrated himself. At Rome, the Hilaria was celebrated near the vernal equinox in honor of his annual resurrection. FTP name this figure of Phrygian mythology, the charioteer and consort of Cybele.
He was the son of the River-god Sangarios's daughter Nana, who conceived when she hid an almond or pomegranate in her lap.
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