Definitions for Cabiri

Cabiri Ca·bi·ri

Spelling: [kuh-bahy-rahy, -ree]
IPA: /kəˈbaɪ raɪ, -ri/

Cabiri is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Cabiri (abciir).

Definitions for Cabiri

noun

  1. a group of gods, probably of Eastern origin, worshiped in mysteries in various parts of ancient Greece, the cult centers being at Samothrace and Thebes.

Examples for Cabiri

The mysteries of the Cabiri, for example, are supposed to be of Egyptian origin.

The Cabiri were particularly at home in Lemnos, and afterward in Samothrace.

The Cabiri were therefore in estimation and honor two thousand and three or four hundred years before the Christian era.

The marvelous calculations of the Pythagoreans engaged him, and the lost mysteries of the Cabiri.

There were three sorts of Cabiri; for, as we have already observed, everything in antiquity was done by threes.

The chief mysteries were those of the Cabiri, of Eleusis, and of Isis.

The mysteries of the Cabiri are the most ancient of which anything is known.

"Yes; true enough; there are the Cabiri," I answered, as full of delight as he was himself.

How about your vow of twenty shekels and a bullock that you made to the Cabiri?

Cicero testifies that the Cabiri were originally three in number, and he carefully distinguishes them from the Dioscuri.

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