Note 104 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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Ramsay, ibid. I. pp. 93, 94. The Galli or priests of Cybele, who mutilated themselves in religious ecstasy, seem to have been the feature of Anatolian religion which most struck the Romans, when the statue of the Mother of the Gods first appeared among them. Cf. next page. For the other side of the religion, see Lucian, de Dea Syria, cc. VI., XLIII., and Apuleius, Metamorph. Bk VIII. c. 29.