. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . A PHRYGIAN GOD. PHRYGIAN BELIEFS AND MONUMENTS 97 sacred cities—Tyana, Venasa, and the Cappadooian Comana—were to be found as late as Eoman times ; in these townsher priests were regarded as kings, and thousands of herpriestesses spent lives of prostitution in her service; buther sanctuaries, with their special rites and regulations,were scattered over the whole peninsula. She was some-times worshippedunder the form ofa meteoric stone, orbetyle similar tothose found in Ca-naan ; ^ more fre-quently she wasrepresented in fe-male shape,
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. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . A PHRYGIAN GOD. PHRYGIAN BELIEFS AND MONUMENTS 97 sacred cities—Tyana, Venasa, and the Cappadooian Comana—were to be found as late as Eoman times ; in these townsher priests were regarded as kings, and thousands of herpriestesses spent lives of prostitution in her service; buther sanctuaries, with their special rites and regulations, were scattered over the whole peninsula. She was some-times worshippedunder the form ofa meteoric stone, orbetyle similar tothose found in Ca-naan ; ^ more fre-quently she wasrepresented in fe-male shape, withattendant hens, orplaced erect on aHon in the attitudeof walking. A moon-god, Mgn, shareddivine honours withher, and with agoddess Nana whose son Atys had been the only loveof Md, and the victim of her passion. We are told thatshe compelled him to emasculate himself in a fit of mad. THE MOTHEE-GODDESS BETWEEN LIONS.^ 1 E.g. at Mount Dindymus and at Pessinus, which latter place wassupposed to possess the oldest sanctuary of Cybele. The Pessinus stone, which was carried off to Rome in 204 B.C., was small, irregular in shape, andof a dark colour. Another stone represented Ida. ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a sketch by Ramsay. VOL. VIII. H 98 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH delirium, and then transformed him into a pine tree : thence-forward her priests made the sacrifice of their virihty withtheir own hands at the moment of dedicating themselves to the service of thegoddess.^ The godsintroduced fromThrace by the Phry-gians showed a closeaffinity with thoseof the purely Asianicpeoples. Precedencewas universally givento a celestial divinitynamed Bagaios, Lordof the Oak, perhapsbecause he was wor-shipped under agigantic sacred oak;he was king of godsand men, theirfather, ^ lord of thethunder and thelightning, the warrior who charges in his chariot. He, 1 Nana was mad