Attis' flesh would have decayed had not Zeus stepped in to assist Cybele in his resurrection. Attis and his father-in-law castrated themselves in front of the wedding guests. The gods feared him so they cut off his testicles. The Myth. Nobody goes there. There Attis castrated and killed himself. The tree took care of Attis' spirit. Attis (/ ˈ æ t ɪ s /; Greek: Ἄττις, also Ἄτυς, Ἄττυς, Ἄττης) was the consort of his mother, Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.
Important to the worship of Cybele was Attis, the Phrygian god of vegetation, also considered a resurrection god (similar to the Greek Adonis). Supposedly, Attis was Cybele’s lover, although some sources claim him to be her son. The bride cut off her own breasts. Originally a deity in the region of Phrygia, the cult of Attis and Cybele eventually spread to Greece. During Attis’ wedding, as the vocalist performed the wedding song, a jealous Agdistis/Cybele attacked, driving the bride, groom and the father of the bride mad. The myth of Attis and Cybele in the Hellenistic period is replete with novel sigificance. When Attis grew to adulthood, Cybele took him as a lover, bearing him through the world in her lion-drawn chariot. Attis was a Phrygian or a Lydian dear to Cybele. According to the cult, the origins of Attis were linked to the figure Agdistis.
During Attis’ wedding, as the vocalist performed the wedding song, a jealous Agdistis/Cybele attacked, driving the bride, groom and the father of the bride mad. The worship of Attis and the Great Mother included the annual celebration of mysteries on the return of the spring season. Because Cybele was the earth itself, there was nowhere that Attis could make love to this other woman without Cybele knowing about it; when he tried, Cybele naturally surprised him, and in punishment, she drove him mad. He is remembered for having cut off his genitals in a fit of folly. Stories in which Kybele's is conflated with the Greek Rhea can be found on the seperate Rhea-Kybele page.

Because Cybele was the earth itself, there was nowhere that Attis could make love to this other woman without Cybele knowing about it; when he tried, Cybele naturally surprised him, and in punishment, she drove him mad. Zeus* promised her that the pine tree would remain sacred forever. This page describes the myths of Kybele set in her homeland of Phrygia including the distinctly non-Greek myth of her hermaphroditic birth and her love for the youth Attis. From the blood, grew an almond tree. Phrygia is an area that is often called "Thrace," a region of SE Europe comprising NE Greece, S Bulgaria, and European Turkey, bordered by the Black Sea in the northeast, and the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea in the south. Attis, also spelled Atys, mythical consort of the Great Mother of the Gods (q.v. The bride cut off her own breasts. Attis died as a result of his self-inflicted wounds. In another version of the myth, Attis, a celibate high priest, was running from a king who was sexually interested in him. The ruins of Pessinus lie under the auspicious silhouette of Mount Agdistis, not far from Ankara. Myth claims that he would return to life during the yearly rebirth of vegetation; thus identifying Attis as an early dying-and-reviving god figure. Attis immediately castrates himself but in this story he doesn't die. Unfortunately, he fell in love with a mortal and chose to marry. PESSINUS: THE ORIGIN OF CYBELE’S ABDUCTION AND THE ATTIS MYTH By ANDREW GOUGH MAY 2014 . Zeus* promised her that the pine tree would remain sacred forever. But Attis turned his attention toward another woman. Belief today and yesterday . According to myth, Cybele discovered that her youthful lover Attis was unfaithful. Attis is said to have introduced to Lydia the cult of the Mother Goddess Cybele, incurring the jealousy of Zeus, who sent a boar to destroy the Lydian crops.