Editing Agdistis (section)

==Ullikummi==

Parallels have been seen between Agdistis, and the [[Hurrian]] monster [[Ullikummi]].<ref>Burkert, pp. 110&ndash;111; Bremmer, p. 544; Baudy, [https://referenceworks-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/entries/NPOE/e107470.xml s.v. Agdistis]; Lancelotti, p. 21.</ref> The story of Ullikummi is found in a [[Hittite language|Hittite]] text called the ''[[Song of Ullikummi]]'', where like Agdistis, Ullikummi is born from a rock that has been impregnated by a god, presents a challenge to the ruling gods, and the gods "cut" Ullikummi, severing him from his strength.<ref>Hoffner, pp. 55&ndash;65.</ref> As [[Walter Burkert]] has noted, the beginning of the ''Song of Ullikummi'' "corresponds nearly sentence for sentence" with the beginning of Arnobius' account (5.5&ndash;6) of Agdistis's story:

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|+ Burkert's Comparison<ref>Burkert, pp. 197&ndash;198.</ref>
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! ''[[Song of Ullikummi]]'' !! Arnobius || English translation<ref>By Archibald Hamilton Bryce and Hugh Campbell.</ref>
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| In the ... a great rock lies ... || ''inauditae vastitatis petra'' ... || [Agdus] a rock of unheard-of wildness<ref>[[Arnobius]], [https://archive.org/details/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft/page/n253/mode/2up 5.5].</ref>
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| He (Kumarbi) slept with the rock ... || (Jupiter) ''voluptatem in lapidem fudit ...'' || spent his lust on the stone<ref>[[Arnobius]], [https://archive.org/details/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft/page/n253/mode/2up 5.5].</ref>
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| she gave birth ... the Rock ... Kumarbi's son ... || ''Petra concepit, nascitur ... Agdistis'' || The rock [conceived and Agdistis] is born<ref>[[Arnobius]], [https://archive.org/details/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft/page/n253/mode/2up 5.5].</ref>
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| "Let him ascend to heaven for kingship! ... Let him attack the Storm god and tear him to pieces ... Let him shoot down all the gods from the sky ... || ''huic robur invictum et ferocitas animi ... nec praeter se quicquam potentius credere ...'' || In him there had been resistless might, and a fierceness of disposition ... nor did he think anything more powerful than himself ...<ref>[[Arnobius]], [https://archive.org/details/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft/page/n253/mode/2up 5.5].</ref>
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| (The Sun-god, The Storm-god, Tašmišu, Ištar, Ea, Enlil meet and deliberate) || ''Cuius cum audacia quibusnam modis posset ... comprimi saepenumero esset deorum in deliberatione quaesitum,'' || ... it had been often considered in the councils of the gods, by what means it might be possible either to weaken or to curb his audacity,<ref>[[Arnobius]], [https://archive.org/details/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft/page/n255/mode/2up 5.6].</ref>
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| Ea began to speak ... "Let them bring forth the olden copper knife with which the severed heaven from earth, Let them cut through the feet of Ullikummis." || (Liber inebriates ageists, the monster is laid in fetters), ''se ... eo quo vir erat privat sexu'' || he robs himself of his sex <ref>[[Arnobius]], [https://archive.org/details/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft/page/n255/mode/2up 5.6].</ref>
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