The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cabiri \Ca*bi"ri\ (k[.a]*b[imac]"r[imac]), prop. 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.
Wikipedia
Cabiri may refer to:
- Cabeiri, a group of Grecian deities
- The Cabiri, a Seattle-based performance troupe
- Cabiri, Angola
Usage examples of "cabiri".
Pushing herself upright, she staggered the final distance and all but crawled up the few short steps to the cabiri s door.
Ark or chest containing genitals of youngest Cabiri in Mysteries, 427-m.
At Samothrace, in the Mysteries of the Cabiri or great Gods, a representation was given of the death of one of them.
In the ceremonies was represented the death of the youngest of the Cabiri, slain by his brothers, who fled into Etruria, carrying with them the chest or ark that contained his genitals: and there the Phallus and the sacred ark were adored.
Clemens of Alexandria says that the Cabiri taught the Tuscans to revere it.
Osiris, Isis and Horus, Atys and Cybele, Adonis and Venus, the Cabiri, Dionusos, and many another representative of the active and passive Powers of Nature, taught the Initiates in the Mysteries that the rule of Evil and Darkness is but temporary, and that of Light and Good will be eternal.
But he got the impression that a majority of his shipmates probably did not know much about the Cabiri either.
No figure however strange would have been very surprising back on Samothraki, as part of the Cabiri ritual.
In Samothrace I had been initiated into the Mysteries of the Cabiri, ancient and obscene rites as sacred as flesh and blood.