Cabiri
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Garfield himself was drawn to Murphy’s phrase for what the Cabiri do: “performative mythology.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2013
“Ailuran” — the latest production of the Cabiri — imagines prehistoric creation myths, inspired by archaeological findings at Çatalhöyük, southern Turkey.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2013
Cabiri artistic director John Murphy has been fascinated with it for decades, he says, and was lucky enough to visit it in 2001.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2013
Watching members of the Cabiri when they're first working out their routines makes clear just how difficult that is.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2011
Greece, daughter of the light, made merry with the gods of darkness, the tunbellied Cabiri; but yet she bore with them, adopted them as workmen, even to shaping out of them her own Vulcan.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
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