A Wisdom Archive on Cadmilus

Cadmus, Cadmilus (Greek) Son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia, and brother of Europa, husband of Harmonia, and father of Semele; legendary founder of Thebes, who slew the dragon, planted its teeth, and built the city with the help of some of the soldiers that sprang from the teeth.
 
He and his wife were finally turned into serpents by the gods. Said to have introduced into Greece an alphabet, possibly based upon 16 characters derived from either Egypt or Phoenicia. He belongs to the class of heroes, who succeeded the reigns of the gods and demigods on earth and who were parents and instructors of mortals.
 
Hermes was worshiped at Samothrace as the ancestral god under the name of Cadmus or Kadmilos.

 
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• Kabeiroi - Name
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The etymology of the name Kabeiroi is unknown, and is probably a loan from the Lemnian language. Semitic kabir ('great') has been compared at least since Scaliger, but nothing else seems to point to a Semitic origin (Burkert, p. 457). A.H. Sayce in 1925 suggested a connection to Hittite habiri, 'looters, outlaws', but subsequent discoveries have made this implausible on phonological grounds. G. Dossin (1953) compares Kabeiroi to the Sumerian word kabar, 'c ...

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The Kabeiroi in myth bear many similarities to other fabulous races: the Telchines of Rhodes, the Cyclopes, Idaian Dactyls, Korybantes, Kuretes. There was often a confounding or identification of these different groups with one another since many of them, like the Cyclopes and Telchines, were also associated with metallurgy. Diodorus Siculus said of the Kabeiroi that they were Idaioi dactyloi, "Idaian dactyls". The Idaian Dactyls were a race of divine beings associated with the Mother Goddess and with Mount Ida, a mountain ...

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Cabeiri in Greek mythology, were a group of minor deities, of whose character and worship nothing certain is known. Their chief seats of worship were the islands of Lemnos, Imbros and Samothrace, the coast of Troas, Thessalia and Boeotia. The name appears to be of Phoenician origin, signifying the "great" gods, and the Cabeiri seem to have been deities of the sea who protected sailors and navigation, as such often identified with the Dioscuri, the ...

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Cadmus, or Kadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia and brother of Europa. His father is either Agenor or Phoenix son of Agenor. See Agenor and Phoenix. After his sister had been carried off by Zeus, he was sent out to find her. Unsuccessful in his search, he came in the course of his wanderings to Delphi, where he consulted the oracle. He was ordered to give up his quest and follow a cow which would meet him, and to build a town on ...

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