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Cabiri

American  
[kuh-bahy-rahy, -ree] / kəˈbaɪ raɪ, -ri /
Also Cabeiri,

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  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.


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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

Garfield himself was drawn to Murphy’s phrase for what the Cabiri do: “performative mythology.”

From Seattle Times Aug. 2, 2013

“Ailuran,” he adds, is just the prequel to an ambitious planned trilogy that will span 9,000 years of human myth: “It’s hands-down the most challenging work the Cabiri has ever done.”

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

And releasing Diane, who had revived, he rushed forward, seized the prostrate savant from amid the unresisting Cabiri, and bore him to safety.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

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