Cabbiri: alternatives and connections

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present th…

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain…

a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture)

Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saint…

Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.

A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic…

Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive woo…

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.

Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.

In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.