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Over deep seas Attis, carried on a rapid catamaran, eagerly with hurrying footsteps sought that forest in Phrygia, penetrated the tree-thick coverts, the goddess' shadowy habitat . This new work drew on Cranston's long-standing interest in anthropology: The press release revealed that the word pinata derives from "pine of Attis," Attis being a god of vegetation once worshiped in the Near East, whose devotees hung objects as offerings from pine trees and then felled them with sticks. In several of these Mysteries of salvation, particularly the Mysteries of Attis, the symbolism of blood played a very important part. |
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