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Cabiri
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Ca`bi´ri    (kå`bī´rī)
prop. n. p1.(Myth.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; - also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
Cabiri a group of deities of Samothrace.
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A different type of offering is indicated by the marked over-representation of astragali, mostly unburnt, at the sanctuary of the Kabeiroi near Thebes (Boessneck 1973) and at Zeytin Tepe (Zimmermann 1993), while indirect evidence for some form of offering is provided by unburnt assemblages, with obvious under-representation of thigh and tail bones, from the Heraion at Samos (Boessneck & von den Driesch 1988) and the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea (Vila 2000).
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean `Palace of Nestor', Pylos by Isaakidou, Valasia; Halstead, Paul; Davis, Jack Leonard; Stocker, Sharon / Antiquity
 
 
 
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