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There is not much information availeble on the Kabeiroi, so this is about all I could find so far on the subject.
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The Cabiri
Origin
Little is known about these deities and although their numbers can differ from region to region. One thing is certain the Cabiri or Kabeiroi are split in two groups: male and female deities. Traditionally there were four deities called: Axierus, Axiocersa, Axiocersus and Cadmillus. These deities are said to be promoted fertility and safe-guarding mariners. Their mysteries were mysterious and little is known about it but it is said that it involved scandalous rites. They are also called the Kabeiroi, Cabiroi. They were Chthonic and fertility of Phrygian origin, who were imported into Greece although some scholars suggest that their origin lies in Egypt and part of the Middle East maybe Phoenicia. They were seen as demons whose mystery cults were connected to that of Hephaestus. The role the male pair is more important than that of the female pair. The centre of their worship was on Samothrace not so far where the famous statue of Niké was found. The island itself has some mythological history since Homer wrote in the Illiad that from the highest mountain of Samothrace, Mount Fengari, Poseidon saw the battles at Troy.
Another version of their origin, says that they were servants of the Mother Goddess of Anatolia, also known as Kybele. Their name does suggest a link between them and the mountain called Kabeiros in the region of Berekynntia where the cult of the Phyrgian Mother Goddess could be found. The arrival of the cult of the Cabiri on Samothrace, Lemnos and Imbros, is speculated be around the 2nd millennium BCE, before the arrival of the Indo-European languages in that area. Their pre-Hellenic origins remained intact as the Greeks couldn’t understand its language. Diodorus Sicullus links the Kabeiroi with the Idaean Daktyloi, the servants of Kybele. That was considered hearsay, just as the speculation that the origin of the Orphic movement and Orpheus himself lied among the Kabeiroi.
In fact, the Kaberioi are easily mistaken for the Daktyloi, Kouretes, Korytbantes and the Telchines of Rhodes as with the Minyans of Lemnos, who were initiated in the mysteries of Hephaestos, into the forge-making , whose origins lies in a distant past.
Strabo suggest that the Kabeiroi didn’t had a father, only a mother called Kabeiro, a daughter of Proteus, one of “the old men of the sea”. Aeschyles had a play written about them, where they greet the Argonauts when they arrive at Lemnos.
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