Editing Agdistis (section)

==Androgyny==
Both Pausanias and Arnobius present Agdistis as being born an [[hermaphrodite]], whom the gods caused to be castrated. According to Pausanias this was because the gods were afraid of Agdistis, while Arnobius makes clear this fear was a reaction to Agdistis' androgyny, which produced in her/him "a fierceness of disposition beyond control, lust made furious", derived "from both sexes!".<ref>Lancellotti, pp. 91&ndash;92. According to Lancelotti, Agdistis' "androgyny is dangerous in that it is potentially the origin of an uncontrollable and disordered generative process and so has to be reduced in size".</ref> Agdistis is also intimately associated with the boy Attis, who, like the Agdistis in Arnobius' version, self-castrates. The central theme of these accounts have been taken by some to be "the myth of the primeval Androgyne",<ref>Sfameni Gasparro, p. 32.</ref> a theme also seen to be present in "other Phrygian religious traditions".<ref>Sfameni Gasparro, p. 37, who, however, sees these accounts as going far "beyond the theme of the primeval androgyne".</ref>

Attempts have been made to connect Agdistis to other Phrygian deities who were also androgynous. Her name has been conjectured to be the Greek form of the name (possibly ''Andistis'')  of an earlier Phrygian divine androgyne.<ref>Sfameni Gasparro, pp. 37&ndash;38; Lancellotti, pp. 20&ndash;21, who notes that, although some have drawn a connection between Angdistis, and a supposedly androgynous Anatolian goddess [[Adamma (goddess)|Adamma]] (also discussed by Sfameni Gasparro, p. 38), "according to present knowledge, the hypothesis of the androgyny of Adamma can no longer be proposed".</ref>