Kabeiro, Nymph-Mother of the Kabeiroi
Thracian · numen · Samothracian mystery cult; Archaic Hellenistic · Recorded classification
Samothracian nymph of the Thracian-Pelasgian mystery complex, named by Acusilaus (via Strabo and the Apollonius scholia) as the mother, by Hephaistos, of Kadmilos and so the ancestress of the Kabeiroi. Typed numen (a divine nymph outside the worshipped pantheon). Native name transmitted in Greek (Kabeiro). Her consort Hephaistos is a Greek deity outside this Thracian set and is left unauthored here. Authored to give Kadmilos his named maternal parent.
Domains
- mystery initiation
Relations
- mother of: Kadmilos, the Divine Attendant of the Great GodsIn the Acusilaus genealogy Kabeiro, by Hephaistos, is the mother of Kadmilos (Kasmilos), the attendant and father of the Samothracian Kabeiroi. Kadmilos already carries her name in his record as his mother.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.917; Strabo, Geography 10.3.21 (citing Acusilaus, FGrH 2 F 20) (primary)