The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
951 Diodorus, iii. 59; Firmicus Maternus, _De err. profan. relig._ 3;
Arnobius, _Advers. nat._ v. 16; Schol. on Nicander, _Alex._ 8;
Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ ix. 116; Arrian, _Tactica_, 33. The
ceremony described in Firmicus Maternus, c. 22 (_nocte quadam
simulacrum in lectica supinum ponitur et per numeros digestis
fletibus plangitur.... Idolum sepelis. Idolum plangis_, etc.), may
very well be the mourning and funeral rites of Attis, to which he
had more briefly referred in c. 3.
952 On the _Hilaria_ see Macrobius, _Saturn._ i. 21, 10; Julian, _Orat._
v. 168 D, 169 D; Damascius, _Vita Isidori_, in Photius, p. 345 A 5
_sqq._ ed. Bekker. On the resurrection, see Firmicus Maternus, 3,
_reginae suae amorem [Phryges] cum luctibus annuis consecrarunt, et
ut satis iratae mulieri facerent aut ut paenitenti solacium
quaererent, quem paulo ante sepelierant revixisse jactarunt....
Mortem ipsius_ [_i.e._ of Attis] _dicunt, quod semina collecta
conduntur, vitam rursus quod jacta semina annuis vicibus †
reconduntur_ [_renascuntur_, C. Halm]. Again cp. id. 22, _Idolum
sepelis_. _Idolum plangis, idolum de sepultura proferis, et miser
cum haec feceris gaudes_; and Damascius, _l.c._ τὴν τῶν ἱλαρίων
καλουμένην ἐορτήν; ὅπερ ἑδήλου τὴν ἑξ ἄδου γεγονυῖαν ἡμῶν σωτερίαν.
This last passage, compared with the formula in Firmicus Maternus,
c. 22
θαρρεῖτε μύσται τοῦ θεοῦ σεσωμένου;
ἔσται γὰρ ἠμῖν ἐκ πόνων σωτηρία,
makes it probable that the ceremony described by Firmicus, c. 22, is
the resurrection of Attis.
953 Ovid, _Fast._ iv. 337 _sqq._; Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii. 3. For
other references see Marquardt and Mannhardt, _ll. cc._
954 Pausanias, vii. 17; Arnobius, _Adv. nationes_, v. 6.; cp.
Hippolytus, _Refut. omn. haeres._ v. 9, pp. 166, 168.
955 See above, p. 264 _sq._
956 Firmicus Maternus, 27.
957 Above, p. 81.
958 Hippolytus, _Ref. omn. haeres._ v. cc. 8, 9, pp. 162, 168; Firmicus
Maternus, _De errore prof. relig._ 3.
959 Julian, _Orat._ v. 174 A B.
960 Duncker, _Geschichte des Alterthums_,5 i. 456, _note_ 4; Roscher,
_Ausführliches Lexikon d. griech. u. röm. Mythologie_, i. c. 724.
Cp. Polybius, xxii. 20 (18).
961 The conjecture is that of Henzen in _Annal. d. Inst._ 1856, p. 110,
referred to in Roscher, _l.c._
962 See pp. 84, 231.
963 Article “Phrygia,” in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, ninth ed. xviii.
853.
964 xii. 5, 3.
965 The myth, in a connected form, is only known from Plutarch, _Isis et
Osiris_, cc. 13-19. Some additional details, recovered from Egyptian
sources, will be found in the work of Adolf Erman, _Aegypten und
aegyptisches Leben im Altertum_, p. 365 _sqq._
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