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"Also it was when Rome had already become the world's first million-city that the Eastern mystery religions with their concomitant self-privation and self-mutilation took hold. You fell in behind the procession honouring Cybele, you seized a knife from one of the priests, you cut your balls off and ran through the streets waving them till you came to a house with the door open when you threw them over the threshold. They gave you an outfit of women's clothing and you joined the priesthood. Reflect on the pressure that drove you to think that that was the easy way out!" | |||
—''You're an Ignorant Idiot'' by Chad C. Mulligan | |||
* [https://x.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1390648379886080002 Post] @ Twitter (7 May 2021) | |||
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John Brunner (nonfiction) on Roman cult of Cybele.
"Also it was when Rome had already become the world's first million-city that the Eastern mystery religions with their concomitant self-privation and self-mutilation took hold. You fell in behind the procession honouring Cybele, you seized a knife from one of the priests, you cut your balls off and ran through the streets waving them till you came to a house with the door open when you threw them over the threshold. They gave you an outfit of women's clothing and you joined the priesthood. Reflect on the pressure that drove you to think that that was the easy way out!"
—You're an Ignorant Idiot by Chad C. Mulligan
- Post @ Twitter (7 May 2021)
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