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6/14/2025, 5:43:57 AM
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>The Gemini (Twins) are of course the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeukes (Pollux), who were so closely identified with the Kabiroi as to be confused with them
>The Cabeiri (Ancient Greek: Κάβειροι), whose sacred place was on the island of Samothrace, were understood by Diodorus Siculus to have been Idaean dactyls who had come west from Phrygia and whose magical practices had made local converts to their secret cult
>An Idaean dactyl named Herakles (perhaps the earliest embodiment of the later hero) originated the Olympic Games by instigating a race among his four "finger" brothers. This Herakles was the "thumb"; his brothers were Paeonius (forefinger), Epimedes (middle finger), Iasius (ring finger/healing finger), and Idaius or Acesides (little finger)
>The genitals of Zagreus were later recovered by the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri), two demigods of the island of Samothrake. They deposited these in a sacred cave on the isle and instituted the Samothrakian Mysteries in honour of the dead god
>Sabazios was a Phrygian god identified with Dionysos and the Orphic Zagreus
>Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios (British Museum). Roman 1st–2nd century CE. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use. Another similar bronze hand found in the 16th/17th century in Tournai, Belgium, is also in the British Museum
>The Gemini (Twins) are of course the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeukes (Pollux), who were so closely identified with the Kabiroi as to be confused with them
>The Cabeiri (Ancient Greek: Κάβειροι), whose sacred place was on the island of Samothrace, were understood by Diodorus Siculus to have been Idaean dactyls who had come west from Phrygia and whose magical practices had made local converts to their secret cult
>An Idaean dactyl named Herakles (perhaps the earliest embodiment of the later hero) originated the Olympic Games by instigating a race among his four "finger" brothers. This Herakles was the "thumb"; his brothers were Paeonius (forefinger), Epimedes (middle finger), Iasius (ring finger/healing finger), and Idaius or Acesides (little finger)
>The genitals of Zagreus were later recovered by the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri), two demigods of the island of Samothrake. They deposited these in a sacred cave on the isle and instituted the Samothrakian Mysteries in honour of the dead god
>Sabazios was a Phrygian god identified with Dionysos and the Orphic Zagreus
>Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios (British Museum). Roman 1st–2nd century CE. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use. Another similar bronze hand found in the 16th/17th century in Tournai, Belgium, is also in the British Museum
6/14/2025, 5:38:20 AM
>>17762827
>The Gemini (Twins) are of course the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeukes (Pollux), who were so closely identified with the Kabiroi as to be confused with them
>The Cabeiri (Ancient Greek: Κάβειροι), whose sacred place was on the island of Samothrace, were understood by Diodorus Siculus to have been Idaean dactyls who had come west from Phrygia and whose magical practices had made local converts to their secret cult
>An Idaean dactyl named Herakles (perhaps the earliest embodiment of the later hero) originated the Olympic Games by instigating a race among his four "finger" brothers. This Herakles was the "thumb"; his brothers were Paeonius (forefinger), Epimedes (middle finger), Iasius (ring finger/healing finger), and Idaius or Acesides (little finger)
>Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios (British Museum). Roman 1st–2nd century CE. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use. Another similar bronze hand found in the 16th/17th century in Tournai, Belgium, is also in the British Museum
>The Gemini (Twins) are of course the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeukes (Pollux), who were so closely identified with the Kabiroi as to be confused with them
>The Cabeiri (Ancient Greek: Κάβειροι), whose sacred place was on the island of Samothrace, were understood by Diodorus Siculus to have been Idaean dactyls who had come west from Phrygia and whose magical practices had made local converts to their secret cult
>An Idaean dactyl named Herakles (perhaps the earliest embodiment of the later hero) originated the Olympic Games by instigating a race among his four "finger" brothers. This Herakles was the "thumb"; his brothers were Paeonius (forefinger), Epimedes (middle finger), Iasius (ring finger/healing finger), and Idaius or Acesides (little finger)
>Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios (British Museum). Roman 1st–2nd century CE. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use. Another similar bronze hand found in the 16th/17th century in Tournai, Belgium, is also in the British Museum
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