kabiri

Updated: June 7, 2025

Of this latter class, so prominent in Greece and Rome, there is no clear trace in Semitic cults. The Hebrew Yahweh obviously controls all departments of nature and life. As he was somehow connected with the Kabiri, the "great gods," it is probable that he was a local divinity credited with general powers.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV