Canna Intrat

Attis Hierapolitana, Wikimedia Commons gratia.

Hodie Attis ad Gallum relicta infans invenitur inter cannas aut a Magna Deum Matre, aut a pastoribus.

Michaela Renata Salzmam in suo de Romano Tempore libro, “Feriarum,” inquit, “gyrus eid. mart. per festum nomine Canna intrat, sollemni pompa cannophororum in Urbem incedentium insignem, incipitur. Hoc enim die memorabantur primae Attidis horae, qui (sic) relictus in canneto ad ripas Galli amnis, miro modo erat conservatus, aut (est enim dissensio inter fabularum reliquias) a pastoribus aut a Magna Matre ipsa.”1

  1. Michele Renee Salzmam. On Roman Time (University of California Press, 1990), 166. Anglice: “The cycle of holidays began on 15 March with the festival Canna intrat, a solemn procession of ‘reed bearers’ into the city. This day commemorated the first days of Attis’s life, when he was abandoned in the reeds on the bank of the River Gallus and then miraculously saved, either (depending on the version of the myth one follows) by shepherds or by the Magna Mater.” ↩︎