They say that once there was in this place a city, with inhabitants called Kabeiroi; and that Demeter came to know Prometheus, one of the Kabeiroi, and Aitnaios (Aetnaeus) his son, and entrusted something to their keeping [probably the phallus of the dismembered god Zagreus]. The Greeks identified the Kabeiroi with certain dwarfish sons of the Egyptian god Ptah. This sacred legend is perhaps no other than the one spoken of by Cicero (De Nat. p. 351) makes him come originally from Samothrace. The priests of these Mysteries, whom such as are interested in them call ‘Anaktotelestes’ (Presidents of the Princes' rites), add a portent to the dismal tale. 17 ff : And now he would have fallen flat, struck with the fiery shot, had not Deriades' [river-god] father Hydaspes come to the rescue. p. 302, &c.; Schelling, Ueber die Götter von Samothrake, Stuttgard, 1815; Welcker, Aeschyl. The Lemnian cult was always local to Lemnos, but the Samothracian mystery cult spread rapidly throughout the Greek world during the Hellenistic period, eventually initiating Romans. (Paus. 3. p. 97), and suggests the identity of the Samothracian and Phrygian mysteries. 30.) The Idaian Dactyls were a race of divine beings associated with the Mother Goddess and with Mount Ida, a mountain in Phrygia sacred to the goddess. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) "[The Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) address the Argonauts :] ‘We shall make the house to be scant of vinegar.’" [I.e. : Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. iii. xiv. Trypanis) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) 61) stated, that he was killed by lightning for having entertained improper desires for Demeter; and Arrian (l. c.) says that Jasion, being inspired by Demeter and Cora, went to Sicily and many other places, and there established the mysteries of these goddesses, for which Demeter rewarded him by yielding to his embraces, and became the mother of Parius, the founder of Paros. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) 22. 1 ff (trans. 2. p. 246, ed. He wounded [the Kabeiros (Cabeirus)] Eurymedon, cut through the groin with his blood-stained spear: the mad point ran through the thigh and tore the skin from the fat of the flesh; collapsing he fell on his knee to the ground. Packs of bears joined the dance, skipping and wheeling face to face; lions with a roar from emulous throats mimicked the triumphant cry of the priests of the Kabeiroi, sane in their madness; the revelling pipes rang out a tune to honour of Hekate, divine friend of dogs, those single pipes, which the horn-polisher's art invented in Kronos' (Cronus') days. 77 ff : Deathless Kouretes, by your power alone, the greatest mystic rites to men at first were shown. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. Lat. Various ancient Greek and Roman authors wrote about cyclopes. Other references not currently quoted here: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.23.5. : 22), that Hermes was the son of Coelus and Dies, and that Proserpine desired to embrace him. ii. According to one set of accounts, the Samothracian gods were two male divinities of the same age, which applies to Zeus and Dionysus, or Dardanus and Jasion, but not to Demeter, Rhea, or Persephone. They had pincers instead of hands, which they used as tongs (Greek: karkina) in metalworking. They were famed metal-workers, dwarfish sons of the god Hephaestus, who served their father at his Lemnian forge. Dossein compares Κάβειροι to the Sumerian word kabar, "copper. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. (2) But though the Skepsian [Demetrius of Scepsis, grammarian C2nd B.C. : Herodotus, Histories 3. Deor. The Korybantes (Corybantes) are also called by the name Kabeiroi, which proclaims the Rite of the Kabeiroi (teletes Kabeirikes). The Odd Fellows Improved Manual, A.B Grosh 1871 p. 91, Albert Schachter, “Evolutions of a Mystery Cult: The Theban Kabiroi”, in, This page was last edited on 26 January 2021, at 20:45. : Herodotus (iii. : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. ", Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 115 (trans. Axieros, Axiocersa, and Axiocersus; the first is Demeter, the second Persephone, and the third Hades. "[In the town of Thebes in Boiotia] you come to a grove of Demeter Kabeiraia (Cabeiraea) and Kore (Core) [Persephone]. The Kabeiroi played the same role in the myth of Zagreus--recovering the god's virilia after he had been torn apart by the Titanes. For this very pair of fratricides got possession of the chest in which the virilia of Dionysos [i.e. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) : Almelov. August. 3 : Strabo, Geography 7 Fragment 47 (trans. the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri)], the winds ceased and there appeared near the ship Glaukos (Glaucus) the Sea-God, as he is called . There the mysteries of the Korybantes (Corybantes) [i.e. (Eds.) ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. All that we can attempt to do here is to trace and explain the various opinions of the ancients themselves, as they are presented to us in chronological succession. Perieg. the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri)], offered to these deities prayers for their salvation. and he counselled them, accordingly, that so soon as they touched their lands they should pray their vows to the gods [the Kabeiroi] through the intervention of whom they had twice already been saved. ad Dionys. ad Aen. 1 (trans. 7 : 25. The Lemnians were originally non-Greek; they were Hellenized after Miltiades conquered the island for Athens in the sixth century BCE. It was he who established the Mysteries of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) at Thebes. Zerynthia (trans. 184 ff : In Greek mythology, the Cabeiri (Cabiri, Kabeiroi, or Kabiri; Ancient Greek: Κάβειροι) were a group of enigmatic chthonic deities. With Sara Gilbert, Molly Stanton, Mark Linn-Baker, Melanie Griffith. ", Orphic Hymn 31 to the Curetes (trans. "[The Indian Deriades addresses his troops :] ‘Let Lemnian Kabeiro (Cabeiro) unveiled lament the death of her two sons; let sooty Hephaistos (Hephaestus) throw down his tongs, and see the destroyer of his race sitting in the car of the Kabeiro (Cabeiri)i, see Deriades driving the bronzefoot horses!’", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 27. [10], In the past, the Semitic word kabir ("great") has been compared to Κάβειροι since at least Joseph Justus Scaliger in the sixteenth century, but nothing else seemed to point to a Semitic origin, until the idea of "great" gods expressed by the Semitic root kbr was definitively attested for North Syria in the thirteenth century BCE, in texts from Emar published by D. Arnaud in 1985–87. to 2nd A.D.) : 1. states that they were four in number — Axisros, Axiokersa, Axiokersos, and Casmilus, corresponding, he states, to Demeter, Persephone, Hades, and Hermes. Now the details of the initiatory rite [of the Mysteries] are guarded among the matters not to be divulged and are communicated to the initiates alone; but the fame has travelled wide of how these gods [the Kabeiroi] appear to mankind and bring unexpected aid to those initiates of their who call upon them in the midst of perils. Due to the cult's secrecy, however, their exact nature and relationship with other ancient Greek and Thracian religious figures remained mysterious. "Grottoes of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) and Korybantian cliffs [on the island of Samothrake]. The wrath of the Kabeiroi no man may placate, as has been proved on many occasions. "Thus too [the Persian invader Kambyses (Cambyses)] he entered the temple of Hephaistos (Hephaestus) [i.e. The obscurity that hangs over them, and the contradictions respecting them in the accounts of the ancients themselves, have opened a wide field for speculation to modern writers on mythology, each of whom has been tempted to propound a theory of his own. He stradled across the wounded man, as a lion over his cubs, shouting loud and letting out mad Korybantic cries from his lips. Herodotus, as we have seen, had already connected Hermes with Persephone; the worship of the latter as connected with that of Demeter in Samothrace is attested by Artemidorus (ap. As a result, the membership and roles of the Cabeiri changed significantly over time, with common variants including a female pair (Axierus and Axiocersa) and twin youths (frequently confused with Castor and Pollux) who were … 632F) (trans. 16 (trans. 61 ff (trans. The introduction of a drunken orgy has caused many scholars to regard the play as satyric rather than tragic. 23 (trans. ii. Now, as Demeter and Rhea have many attributes in common--both are megaloi Deoi, and the festivals of each were celebrated with the same kind of enthusiasm; and as peculiar features of the one are occasionally transferred to the other (e. g. Eurip. Varro also describes these twin pillars as Heaven and Earth, denying the vulgar error that they are Castor and Pollux. When people, in the course of time, had become accustomed to regard the Penates and Cabeiri as identical, and yet did not know exactly the name of each separate divinity comprised under those common names, some divinities are mentioned among the Penates who belonged to the Cabeiri, and vice versâ. Burkert does not intend to suggest that the pre-Greek component was, The Aegean relations of the Etruscan language are denied at some length by, Beaumont, Comyns. 1 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 30. ad Aen. The Guard Dogs of Alcinous "They say that the pilot-fish is sacred not only to Poseidon but is also beloved of the gods of Samothrake [the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri)]. 48. CAERUS (Kairos) The Greek god of opportunity. The places where the worship of the Cabeiri occurs, are chiefly Samothrace, Lemnos, and Imbros. Pausanias (ix. Sympos. iii. From the passage of Aeschylus here alluded to, it appears that he regarded the Cabeiri as original Lemnian divinities, who had power over everything that contributed to the good of the inhabitants, and especially over the vineyards. Thus much, Samothrace, has the poet proclaimed thee to the nations and the light of day; there stay, and let us keep our reverence for holy Mysteries. 49. And this is the reason, we are told, why the most famous both of the ancient heroes and of the demi-gods were eagerly desirous to taking part in the initiatory rite; and in fact Jason and the Dioskouroi (Dioscuri), and Herakles (Heracles) and Orpheus as well, after their initiation attained success in all the campaigns they undertook, because these gods appeared to them. p. 511, ed. And Samonion is the eastern promontory of the island and a plain in the territory of Neandria and in that of the Alexandreians. Eurymedon [one of the Kabeiroi] drove and guided the fiery mouths of the ironfoot steeds with a fiery bridle; in his right hand he held a Lemnian spear made on his father's anvil, and by his wellmade thigh hung a flashing sword--if a man picked up a small stone in his fingertips and struck it against the fire-grained surface of the sharp blade, sparks flashed of themselves from the steel. 45) states that the Cabeirus Alcon brandished Hekatês Diasôdea purson, so that we may draw the conclusion, that the Samothracians and Lemnians worshipped a goddess akin to Hecate, Artemis, Bendis, or Persephone, who had some sexual connexion with Hermes, which revelation was made in the mysteries of Samothrace. 431 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) : Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 8 : Hesiod described them as three brothers who were primordial giants. But at the entrance to the sanctuary, which has been thoroughly excavated, the Roman antiquary Varro learned that there had been twin pillars of brass, phallic hermae, and that in the sanctuary it was understood that the child of the Goddess, Cadmilus, was in some mystic sense also her consort. Simpl. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. . At these words fiery Hephaistos leapt down from heaven, and sent a flame leaping and fluttering with many tongues about his son, whirling in his hand a shoot of fire. The island has been excavated by French and Austrian teams in the 19th cent. "Hymn to the Kouretes (Curetes). : Herodotus, Histories 2. ii. And there is a Hippokorona (Hippocorona) in the territory of Adramyttion [in the Troad] and a Hippokoronion in Krete. We may therefore suppose, that the Samothracian Cabeiri were originally such inferior beings; and as the notion of the Cabeiri was from the first not fixed and distinct, it became less so in later times; and as the ideas of mystery and Demeter came to be looked upon as inseparable, it cannot occasion surprise that the mysteries, which were next in importance to those of Eleusis, the most celebrated in antiquity, were at length completely transferred to this goddess. (De Medic. The dust your feet excites, with matchless force flies to the clouds amidst their whirling course; and every flower of variegated hue grows in the dancing motion formed by you; immortal Daimones (Spirits), to your powers consigned, the task to nourish and destroy mankind, when rushing furious with loud tumult dire, overwhelmed, they perish in your dreadful ire; and live replenished with the balmy air, the food of life, committed to your care. Firmicus, de Error. and more recently by New York University. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. He [Orpheus] wished them, by holy initiation, to learn something of the secret rites, and so sail on with greater confidence across the formidable sea. Others add a fourth, Cadmilus, who according to Dionysodorus is identical with Hermes. In their distant origins the Cabeiri and the Samothracian gods may include pre-Greek el… 148.) Prof. p. 23; Clem. "[The Argonauts] had already reached the middle of the Pontic Sea when the ran into a storm which put them in the greatest peril. "Zeus desired that the other of his two sons [Iasion of Samothrake (Samothrace), brother of Dardanos] might also attain honour, and so he instructed him in the initiatory rites of the Mysteries [of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) of Samothrake], which had existed on the island since ancient times but was at that time, so to speak, put in his hands; it is not lawful, however, for any but the initiated to hear about the Mysteries. "[During the Indian War of Dionysos :] Orontes [an Indian chief] dashed hot upon the front ranks, reaping a harvest in both kinds [men and women]. At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios. The places where these deities were worshipped are uninhabited, both the Korybanteion in Hamaxitia in the territory now belonging to the Alexandreians near Sminthion, and Korybissa (Corybissa) in Skepsia in the neighborhood of the river Eurëeis and of the village which bears the same name and also of the winter torrent Aethalöeis. Two of the Korybantes (Corybantes) [i.e. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. The secret of these mysteries has largely been kept; but we know that of three things about the ritual, the aspirants were asked the worst action they had ever committed. 68), the worship of Samothrace was introduced there from Arcadia; for according to them Dardanus, together with his brother Jasion or Jasus and his sister Harmonia, left Arcadia and went to Samothrace, taking with them the Palladium from the temple of Pallas. 1 ff (trans. Dionys. With eye popping colors, our baker's twine is the best on the market! "Cabiri" redirects here. (Macrob. He enjoys meditation, martial arts, high-intensity interval training and cooking— BBQ especially. In general Greek myth identifies the Cabeiri as divine craftsmen, sons or grandsons of Hephaestus, who was also chiefly worshipped on Lemnos. According to Clement the Kabeiroi were three in number, but two of the brothers committed an act of fratricide. And immediately the wind died down and two stars fell over the heads of the Dioskouroi (Dioscuri), and the whole company was amazed at the marvel which had taken place and concluded that they had been rescued from their perils by an act of providence of the gods. 25. 3. Aeschylus, Cabiri (lost play) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) Respecting Dardanus' brother Jasion or Jasus, the accounts likewise differ very much; for while some writers describe him as going to Samothrace either from Parrhasia in Arcadia or from Crete, a third account (Dionys. Ep. ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4. [The early Christian writer Clement divulges the secret mythos of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) of the Samothrakian (Samothracian) Mysteries :] The votive dedications at Thebes are to a Kabeiros (Greek: Κάβειρος) in the singular, and childish toys like votive spinning tops for Pais suggest a manhood initiation. But from these oaths we can no more draw any inference as to the real character of the Cabeiri, than from the fact of their protecting the lives of the initiated; for these are features which they have in common with various other divinities. iii. A Macedonian Cabeirus occurs in Lactantius. the phallus of the god Zagreus who was dismembered by the Titanes] were deposited, and brought it to Tyrrhenia [i.e. At the time of the invasion of the Epigonoi (Epigoni) and the taking of Thebes, the Kabeiroi were expelled from their homes by the Argives and the rites for a while ceased to be performed. Alexander the Great, the historical Macedonian leader] after his victory wasted with fire all the Thebaid, including Thebes itself, some men from Makedonia entered the sanctuary of the Kabeiroi, as it was in enemy territory, and were destroyed by thunder and lightning from heaven. According to the authors used by Dionysius (i. In the Cabiri by Aeschylus, the two gods welcomed the Argonauts to their island and initiated them in a drunken orgy. And Iasion is reputed to have been the first to initiate strangers into them and by this means to bring the initiatory rite to high esteem. . i. In Classical Greek culture the mysteries of the Cabeiri at Samothrace remained popular, though little was entrusted to writing beyond a few names and bare genealogical connections. Buy CBD oils and CBD pet products online with Free Shipping! the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri)] and those of Hekate (Hecate) and the Zerinthian cave, where they sacrificed dogs. 64. p. 198); and there was also a port in Samothrace which derived its name, Demetrium, from Demeter. Orpheus was the only person aboard who had been initiated into the mysteries of the Cabeiri, and so he prayed to these gods to abate the storm. The Cabeiri were also worshipped at other sites in the vicinity, including Seuthopolis in Thrace and various sites in Asia Minor. 3. ad Callim. ", Orphic Hymn 38 to the Curetes : 43. But when Orpheus . ", Strabo, Geography 7 Fragment 47 (trans. 16.) But when Iasion was struck by a thunderbolt because of his sin against Demeter, Dardanos sailed away from Samothrake, went and took up his abode at the foot of Mount Ida, calling the city Dardania, and taught the Trojans the Samothrakian Mysteries. Marcell. 15, 8; comp. "[During the Indian War of Dionsysos :] Madly he [the Indian Tektaphos] pursued the army of Lyaios (Lyaeus) [Dionysos] and [slew several Satyroi (Satyrs)] . The Twins are two separate flying entities, Retinazer and Spazmatism, connected by a tendril, each with its own attack pattern and life count. the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri)] slew a third one, who was their brother, covered the head of the corpse with a purple cloak, and then wreathed and buried it, bearing it upon a brazen shield to the skirts of Olympos (Olympus). All' ei tis humôn en Samothraikei memuemenos esti . the Egyptian god Ptah] and jeered at the image there . 15 : . The Idaian Dactyls were a race of divine beings associated with the Mother Goddess and with Mount Ida, a mountain in Phrygia sacred to the goddess. What was entrusted to them, and what happened to it, seemed to me a sin to put into writing, but at any rate the rites are a gift of Demeter to the Kabeiroi. [2] In their distant origins the Cabeiri and the Samothracian gods may include pre-Greek elements,[3] or other non-Greek elements, such as Thracian, Tyrrhenian, Pelasgian,[4] Phrygian or Hittite. The Attic writers of this period offer nothing of importance concerning the Cabeiri, but they intimate that their mysteries were particularly calculated to protect the lives of the initiated. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) It thus appears these accounts agreed with that of Stesimbrotus, who reckoned the Cabeiri among the great gods, and that Mnaseas only added their names. Helen. that the sacred rites in Samothrake were performed in honor of the Kabeiroi: and the Skepsian says that they were called Kabeiroi after the mountain Kabeiros (Cabeirus) in Berekyntia (Berecynthia) [in Mysia]. They were worshiped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace —at the Samothrace temple complex —and at Thebes. ", Aeschylus, Fragment 49 Cabiri (from Plutarch, Table Talk 2. Apollon. Fragment 49 would seem to refer to the hospitable reception of the Argonauts by the Cabiri, who furnished them with an abundance of wine upon their landing at Lemnos, the first stopping-place of the Argo on its eastward voyage. We generally find this goddess worshipped in places which had the worship of the Cabeiri, and a Lemnian Artemis is mentioned by Galen. At that moment the stars of Gemini appeared overhead and the storm dissipated saving the ship. : In Greek Mythology, the Cabeiri were twin gods who presided over the mysteries of Samothrace held in honour of the goddesses Demeter, Persephone and Hecate. (3) Some, however, believe that the Kouretes (Curetes) were the same as the Korybantes and were ministers of Hekate (Hecate). "[The Argonauts sail towards the isle of Samothrake (Samothrace) :] Electra's island grows larger, guarding the secret of the Thracian rites [of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) and other gods]; for here dwells the great and terrible god, and here are ordained penalties for an unguarded tongue. 43, 49; Aelian, Fragm. the gods jest that they will exhaust all the wine in their drinking and be forced to resort to vinegar. The writer next to Herodotus, who speaks about the Cabeiri, and whose statements we possess in Strabo (p. 472), though brief and obscure, is Stesimbrotus. 7 - 9 : "(1) Others say that the Korybantes (Corybantes) were sons of Zeus and Kalliope (Calliope) and were identical with the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri), and that these went off to Samothrake (Samothrace), which in earlier times was called Melite, and that their rites were mystical. the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri)] and of Hekate (Hecate) took place. iv. ; Klausen, Aeneas u. die Penat. 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