Day of Blood

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Day of Blood is an ancient Phrygian and later Roman religious festival marked by intense mourning, self-flagellation, and bloodletting in honor of the dying-and-reborn god Attis.

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Day of Blood canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Phrygian festival
ancient Roman festival
religious festival
associatedDeity Attis
Cybele
associatedMyth Attis as dying-and-reborn god
myth of Attis
linked to: Attis
calendarContext spring festival cycle of Cybele and Attis
commemorates death of Attis
cult Cult of Attis
linked to: Cult of Cybele

Cult of Cybele
culturalOrigin Phrygia
emotionalTone ecstatic frenzy
intense mourning
hasRitual bloodletting
ecstatic rites
mourning
ritual wounding
self-flagellation
hasTheme death and rebirth
ritual mourning
sacred violence
honorsDeity Attis
participants Galli
devotees of Cybele
period Classical antiquity
practicedIn Phrygia
ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
relatedFestival Hilaria
Megalesia
religion Phrygian religion
linked to: Phrygian mythology

Roman religion
symbolizes rebirth of Attis
typeOfSacrifice blood sacrifice

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Attis linkedRitual Day of Blood
Galli priests associatedRitualDay Day of Blood