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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Daimones, Greek goddesses, Greek gods, Greek titans, Protogenoi, The Ourea, Attis, Circe, Deimos, Nyx, Protogenoi, Amphitrite, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Athena.jpg, Atropos, Circe, Clotho, Demeter, Eos, Eris, Gaia, Hebe, Hecate, Hera, Lachesis, Leto, Moirae, Nemesis, Nike, Nyx, Persephone, Pheme, Selene, Tyche, Adonis, Apollo, Ares, Boreas, Dionysus, Eros, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Heracles, Hermes, Hypnos, Notus, Oceanus, Pan, Poseidon, Priapus, Prometheus, Zeus, Atlas, Circe, Cronus, Epimetheus, Rhea, Gaia, Nyx. Excerpt: The Ourea (The Mountains) were the Protogenoi gods or Daimones (spirits) of the mountains. Each mountain was said to have their own. They were usually depicted as old men rising up from the mountain side. Attis, a life-death-rebirth deity, was both the son and the lover of Cybele, her eunuch attendant and driver of her lion-driven chariot; he was driven mad by her and castrated himself. Attis was originally a local semi-deity of Phrygia, associated with the great Phrygian trading city of Pessinos, which lay under the lee of Mount Agdistis. The mountain was personified as a daemon, whom foreigners associated with the Great Mother Cybele. The story of his origins from Agdistis, as told to the traveller Pausanias, have some distinctly non-Greek elements: Pausanias was told that the daemon Agdistis initially bore both male and female attributes. But the Olympian gods, fearing Agdistis, cut off the male organ and cast it away. There grew up from it an almond-tree, and when its fruit was ripe, Nana who was a daughter of the river Sangarios picked the fruit and laid it in her bosom. It at once disappeared, but she was with child. In time a boy was born and exposed on the hillside, but the infant was tended by a he-goat. As Attis grew, his long-haired beauty was godlike, and Agdistis as Cybele, then fell in love with him. But the foster parents of Attis...
