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rites, and

died a

violent

death on

her sacred

tree, the

pine, may

we not

detect a

close

resemblance

to Attis,

the

favourite

shepherd

or

herdsman

of the

goddess,

who is

himself

described

as a

piper, is

said to

have

perished

under a

pine-tree,

and was

annually

represented

by an

effigy

hung, like

Marsyas,

upon a

pine? We

may

conjecture

that in

old days

the priest

who bore

the name

and played

the part

of Attis

at the

spring