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- Criobolium is the ritual sacrifice of a ram in the cult of Attis and the Great Mother of the Gods. It seems to have been a special ceremony instituted...
- anti****ting by several centuries the pit used in her taurobolium and criobolium sacrifices during the Roman imperial era. Over time, her Phrygian cults...
- altars and inscriptions commemorative of taurobolia were discovered. A criobolium, substituting a ram for the bull, was also practiced, sometimes together...
- Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. II, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. "Criobolium." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's...