Is a nymph, in this context, assumed to be a "created" being? That is, are we talking about Attis forsaking a god for his creation?
Hrm. If so, it occurs to me that Attis cuts off his creative ability, gives it to creation, and thus creation keeps on perpetuating itself. Thus, in a sense, this seems to foreshadow the "mechanistic" interpretation of the universe, in which is seems to just continue on following fixed rules as if the gods made it and went away.
I feel like I'm misreading something here, as this seems to have one set of belief systems (Neoplatonism, as I understand it, sees the world as in an every-blossoming process of the gods becoming) interpreting a myth to fit a very different set of belief systems (where the world is explicitly created and left).
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Date: 2021-11-24 04:17 pm (UTC)Hrm. If so, it occurs to me that Attis cuts off his creative ability, gives it to creation, and thus creation keeps on perpetuating itself. Thus, in a sense, this seems to foreshadow the "mechanistic" interpretation of the universe, in which is seems to just continue on following fixed rules as if the gods made it and went away.
I feel like I'm misreading something here, as this seems to have one set of belief systems (Neoplatonism, as I understand it, sees the world as in an every-blossoming process of the gods becoming) interpreting a myth to fit a very different set of belief systems (where the world is explicitly created and left).