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- noun Greek mythology A group of
enigmatic chthonic deities worshipped by amystery cult closely associated with that ofHephaestus .
Etymologies
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Capitoline deities with the Penates, and of these with the Cabeiri, tended to increase this feeling.
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Roman antiquarians identified the Cabeiri with the three Capitoline deities or with the Penates.
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Demetrius Poliorcetes, Lysimachus and Arsinoë regarded the Cabeiri with especial favour, and initiation was sought, not only by large numbers of pilgrims, but by persons of distinction.
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Cabeiri appeared, Hephaestus and Demeter, and Cadmilus and Kore.
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The Cabeiri were held in even greater esteem by the Romans, who regarded themselves as descendants of the
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Camillus, a son of Hephaestus, the Cabeiri have been thought to be, like the Corybantes, Curetes and Dactyli, demons of volcanic fire.
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Trojans, whose ancestor Dardanus (himself identified in heroic legend with one of the Cabeiri) came from Samothrace.
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In Lemnos an annual festival of the Cabeiri was held, lasting nine days, during which all the fires were extinguished and fire brought from Delos.
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From this fact and from the statement of Strabo x.p. 473, that the father of the Cabeiri was
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In 1888 interesting details as to the Boeotian cult of the Cabeiri were obtained by the excavations of their temple in the neighbourhood of Thebes, conducted by the German archaeological institute.
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