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[[File:Samothraki Hieron.jpg|thumb|300px|The Kabeirion on [[Samothrace]].]]
[[File:Samothraki Hieron.jpg|thumb|300px|The Kabeirion on [[w:Samothrace|Samothrace]].]]


The '''Kabiri''' (also ''Kabeiri'', Cabeiri or Cabiri, from {{Greek|Κάβειροι}} ''Kábeiroi'' "the great ones", {{Latin|Cabiri}}) were unspecified [[chthonic gods]] of both sexes from [[w:Asia Minor|Asia Minor]], who were often associated with fertility, seafaring or blacksmithing. They were worshipped as "Great Gods" ({{Greek|Μεγάλοι Θεοί}} ''Megáloi Theoí''), especially on [[w:Samothrace|Samothrace]], but also on [[w:Imbros|Imbros]] and [[w:Lemnos|Lemnos]]. There were other cult sites in [[w:Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[w:Boeotia|Boeotia]], [[w:Pergamon|Pergamon]] and [[w:Miletus|Miletus]], among others. However, the cults were sometimes very different.
The '''Kabiri''' (also ''Kabeiri'', Cabeiri or Cabiri, from {{Greek|Κάβειροι}} ''Kábeiroi'' "the great ones", {{Latin|Cabiri}}) were unspecified [[chthonic gods]] of both sexes from [[w:Asia Minor|Asia Minor]], who were often associated with fertility, seafaring or blacksmithing. They were worshipped as "Great Gods" ({{Greek|Μεγάλοι Θεοί}} ''Megáloi Theoí''), especially on [[w:Samothrace|Samothrace]], but also on [[w:Imbros|Imbros]] and [[w:Lemnos|Lemnos]]. There were other cult sites in [[w:Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[w:Boeotia|Boeotia]], [[w:Pergamon|Pergamon]] and [[w:Miletus|Miletus]], among others. However, the cults were sometimes very different.

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The Kabeirion on Samothrace.

The Kabiri (also Kabeiri, Cabeiri or Cabiri, from Greek: Κάβειροι Kábeiroi "the great ones", Latin: Cabiri) were unspecified chthonic gods of both sexes from Asia Minor, who were often associated with fertility, seafaring or blacksmithing. They were worshipped as "Great Gods" (Greek: Μεγάλοι Θεοί Megáloi Theoí), especially on Samothrace, but also on Imbros and Lemnos. There were other cult sites in Macedonia, Boeotia, Pergamon and Miletus, among others. However, the cults were sometimes very different.

The Kabirs were regarded as children of the Great Mother, the Kabeiro (also Cabeiro, Greek: Καβειρώ). According to Greek mythology, she was a daughter of the shape-shifting sea god Proteus and lived as a sea nymph on the island of Lemnos. After she was cast out of Olympus, the Greek smith god Hephaestus had three sons with her. According to some ancient authors, three Kabeiri and three Kabeirian nymphs (Greek: τρεῖς Καβειρίδες νύμφαι treís Kabeirídes nýmphai) were worshipped on Lemnos.[1] Among others, Kabeiro was identified by the Greeks with the mother of the gods Rhea, but also with Demeter, Hecate and Aphrodite.

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References

  1. ↑ Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. (1924). LacusCurtis, Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Books 6–14
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