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Cabiri
Also
Cabirus.
Certain
deities, probably of
Phrygian origin, worshipped in Asia Minor, Greece and the islands. The traditional four deities are
Axierus, Axiocersa, Axiocersus and Cadmilus, who promoted fertility and safe-guarded
mariners.
Samothrace island
(northeastern Greece, in the
Aegean Sea, northeast of the island of
Limnos) was the center
of the Cabiri worship, which involved scandalous obscenities. The famous Hellenistic
statue of the Nike (Victory) of Samothrace (Louvre, Paris) was discovered at a nearby
shrine in 1863. The island is mountainous, rising to 1600 m (5249 ft) at Mount Fengαri.
From that point, according to the Iliad (an epic poem by the Greek poet
Homer), Poseidon (the Greek mythological god of the
sea) watched the battles around Troy.
See Zeus,
Artemis, Hermes, Delphi,
Phrygian
(Anatolian and Caucasian Studies),
Samothrace (Two
Parts),
Schelling's
Treatise on 'the Deities of Samothrace',
The Cambridge
History of Hellenistic Philosophy,
The Chiron
Dictionary of Greek & Roman Mythology: Gods and Goddesses, Heroes, Places, and Events
of Antiquity,
The Earth, the
Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture,
The Language of
Phrygians: Description and Analysis (Anatolian and Caucasian Studies),
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: Article is scheduled to be reviewed.
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