Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Greek antiquity, divinities of Semitic origin, connected with volcanoes, and hence falling into the category of the deities of fire and of creative life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural (Myth.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
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Examples
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Its one claim to fame was a religious center on the northern coast dedicated to twin gods known as the Cabiri, who, along with powerful goddesses worshiped at the site, protected travelers, promoted fertility, and promised immortality to initiates.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Its one claim to fame was a religious center on the northern coast dedicated to twin gods known as the Cabiri, who, along with powerful goddesses worshiped at the site, protected travelers, promoted fertility, and promised immortality to initiates.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Its one claim to fame was a religious center on the northern coast dedicated to twin gods known as the Cabiri, who, along with powerful goddesses worshiped at the site, protected travelers, promoted fertility, and promised immortality to initiates.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The mysteries of the Cabiri are the most ancient of which anything is known.
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Though it isn't part of "The Red Book," its back contains a passage from the text that Jung inscribed referencing the Cabiri, a group of Greek gods thought to promote fertility.
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Cabiri, established in Samothrace, came, does it not seem probable that they came from Thrace, the country nearest to that island, and that that small island was granted them as a theatre on which to act their farces, and pick up a little money?
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Cabiri, and mysteries of the Cabiri, in this contemptible and miserable island.
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The Cabiri were therefore in estimation and honor two thousand and three or four hundred years before the Christian era.
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The fact is, that there were gods of the Cabiri, priests of the
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