Κάβειροι: Difference between revisions

|wketx=In Greek mythology, the [[Cabeiri]] or [[Cabiri]] /kəˈbaɪriː/ (Ancient Greek: [[Κάβειροι]], Kábeiroi), also transliterated [[Kabeiri]] or [[Kabiri]], were a group of enigmatic [[chthonic]] deities. 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]]. In their distant origins the Cabeiri and the [[Samothracian]] gods may include pre-Greek elements, or other non-Greek elements, such as [[Thracian]], [[Tyrrhenian]], [[Pelasgian]], [[Phrygian]] or [[Hittite]]. 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.