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Cabeiri
Cabbiri Cab*bi"ri (k[.a]*b[imac]"r[imac]), n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. Ka`beiroi.] (Myth.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Heph[ae]stus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] --Liddell & Scott.

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- In Gr**** mythology, the Cabeiri or Cabiri /kəˈbaɪriː/ (Ancient Gr****: Κάβειροι, Kábeiroi), also transliterated Kabeiri or Kabiri, were a group of enigmatic...
- her son on Naxos to teach him smithcraft. Kerenyi compares him to the Cabeiri, to Chiron, and to Prometheus. The more common story of Cedalion tells...
- but often they were ten spirit-men so like the three Korybantes or the Cabeiri that they were often interchangeable. The Dactyls were both ancient smiths...
- Sydyk, 'The Righteous', first fathered seven sons equated with the Gr**** Cabeiri or Dioscuri, no mother named, and then afterwards fathered an eighth son...
- Cabeiro, by whom he was the father of two metalworking gods named the Cabeiri. In Sicily, his consort was the nymph Aetna, and his sons were two gods...
- with others on neighboring island such as the mysteries of the deities of Cabeiri. Philip II of Macedon and his later wife Olympias were said to have met...
- Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities. In the different parts of the country once occupied...
- magical art. There were several "tribes" of Korybantes, including the Cabeiri, the Korybantes Euboioi, the Korybantes Samothrakioi. Hoplodamos and his...
- Olympus, the Gr**** forge god Hephaestus fathered three sons known as the Cabeiri and the three Cabeirian nymphs with her. Strabo, 10.3.21 citing Pherecydes...
- court. His palace had a dual role, functioning also as a sanctuary of the Cabeiri, the gods of Samothrace. Most of the space within the city was occupied...