So for this #Satyrday, I was busy doing chores and then got distracted. But, I had read something in #Nonnos #Dionysiaca that led me to these #Satyrs

These two are the columns or guards of the temple of #Attis at Ostia
https://www.romeartlover.it/Newosti6.html ">https://www.romeartlover.it/Newosti6....
Now #Nonnos gives us insight to #Attis and his cut above or is that below, & his arrival with a special shield- a meteorite item from some accounts. So this took me down a rabbit hole with Attis and #Rhea also known as #Cybele which gets met to call in @ColorsAndStones & @chapps
How to castrate a demon, tie a rope between its privates and its foot while it& #39;s sleeping...that first step could be a doozy - so not sure which is worse, this or that vice and sharp blade. https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Attis/attis.html">https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mor...
Cybele as Mater and the meteorite that became a central source of worship in Rome https://andrewgough.co.uk/pessinus/ ">https://andrewgough.co.uk/pessinus/...
This article - in a NASA publication actually - was really informative about the role of #meteorites in Greek and Roman worship.

More on the meteorite and Cybele
Meteorite as a shield that fell from heaven and provided or used by Dionysos
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JIMO...33..135M">https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005...
Which brings us to these images of gelded #Attis
So #Satyrday to #Nonnos and his #Dionysiaca to #Cybele/ #Rhea to #Attis and of course I will have to add our favorite knee slappingtogether thread of threads...
https://twitter.com/ColorsAndStones/status/1218189818863243264?s=20">https://twitter.com/ColorsAnd...
This website has a lot of information on Cybele and Attis https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/tag/attis/">https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/ta...
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