Certain obscure daemonic beings to whom mystic honours were paid in Lemnos and other islands in connection with nature worship, and especially that of the deities of fire, corn, and the vine.
ka-b[=i]'r[=i], n.pl. ancient divinities of Semitic origin, associated with fire and creative energy, worshipped in mysteries in Lemnos, Samothrace, and Indros--also CABEI'RI.--adjs. CABIR'IAN, CABIR'IC.
