Q: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Later ceremonies devoted to this deity included the ritual washing of a black stone in the Almo River, while earlier ones included a festival known as the Megalesia. Proclus wrote a book on a late form of devotion to this figure which included a baptism in the blood of a sacrificed bull, known as the "taurobolium. " Herodotus tells us that Anacharsis died in the process of introducing this figure to Scythia, while her original cult centered at Pessinus in Phrygia. Generally shown standing between two lions, she was associated with a male figure who was unfaithful to her, after which he went mad and castrated himself. FTP, name this goddess who was worshipped in Rome as Magna Mater and who was loved by Attis.
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Social Science