Attis is worshipped in Phrygia in Asia Minor, beginning around 1250 BCE (modern Turkey).  Attis is born of Nana and the hermaphroditic Agdistis, who is also Cybele.  Attis is going to be married and Cybele (also Agdistis), becomes jealous, drives Attis mad and he mutilates himself.   Attis is confusingly considered the consort of Cybele – a hermaphroditic god – who is known as The Great Mother of the Gods.  The story of Attis includes his own self-mutilation (castration), death and resurrection.  His story, self-told to the world through mythology, allows the deity to frame his own identity and legacy as representing the fruits of the earth which die in the winter, only to resurrect in the fall – during which Attis is venerated in this season.  To believe his resurrection ascribes him godhood; therefore, making him equal with Jesus Christ. 

Later, Attis is worshipped in the Roman Empire as Sol Invictus, meaning “The Invisible Sun.”  Constantine fuses Sol Invictus to Catholicism by introducing pantheistic symbols, religious dates (occult observances) and rituals which remain a part of Christianity to this very day.  Roman Emperor Elagabalus was the high priest of Ba’al in Syria and established the cult of Sol Invictus in Rome.  Emperor Aurelian made Sol Invictus the state religion of the Roman Empire and established a Latin college of high priests under the name Pontifices Dei Solis, to which Constantine belonged and later evolved into the Roman College of Cardinals of the Vatican which elects every pope to this day. 

Attis’ presentation is that of a youth.  Young, good-looking boys become the object of pedophilia to most ancient societies and their elites; to include the most recognized by the western-world, Greece and Rome all the way up to modern Roman Catholicism.  Attis is the god who makes male turn to female and vice versa in the hermaphroditic legacy of his mother, Cybele. 

As Attis relates to Cybele’s hermaphroditic nature, I believe this deity to resemble the Statue of Liberty; presented as a woman but looking like a man.  Could this deity be contributing to the gender-dysphoric nature of America’s current society?  The self-mutilation aspect of Attis makes him effeminate.  Upon his self-castration, Attis becomes a woman, changes his dress to that of a woman, dawns a crown with seven sun rays (representing the seven continents of the world) holds a torch (knowledge) and becomes America’s Colossus of Rhodes.