Cabeiri

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Kabiri (Greek Κάβειροι ( Kabeiroi ), the great ( gods ), the powerful Latin Cabiri ) were chthonic deities who were especially venerated in the North Aegean islands of Lemnos and Samothrace. However, they also found in Egypt and Phoenicia worship. The Greeks borrowed this secret cult apparently by the Phrygians. Although the origin of the name " Cabiri " Semitic, specifically Phoenician is ( " kabir " means " great"), there is no indication that even the cult has its origins in Phoenicia.

Originally, it was initially to only two gods called a senior, afterwards as or ( in Boeotia ) associated with Dionysus Hephaestus, and a younger, Kadmilos or Kasmilos and often identified with Hermes or the Theban Cadmus, or the Trojan Dardanus. When her devotion to the cult of Demeter and Kora, or Rhea was entered into close connection, also appeared a female Kabirin. Of the four traditional gods names that are known in the mysteries of the Cabiri, probably from Thebes, Axieros, Axiokersa, Axiokersos and Kadmilos, it was alleged that they called Demeter, Persephone, Hades and Hermes. On Samothrace they were protectors of sailors and shipwrecked. The Cabiri of Lemnos appear as three sons of Hephaestus and the Kabeiro and were forged, so they were called Hephaistoi what she puts into the relationship to the Telchines, that divine artists, who are said to have formed the first statues of gods by human image from ore.