A

DISSERTATION

ON

THE MYSTERIES

OF

THE CABIRI;

OR THE

GREAT GODS OF PHENICIA, SAMOTHRACE, EGYPT, TROAS, GREECE, ITALY, AND CRETE,

BEING

An Attempt to deduce the feveral Orgies of

ISIS, CERES, MITHRAS, BACCHUS, RHEA, ADONIS,
AND HECATE,

FROM AN

Union of the Rites commemorative of the DELUGE with the Adoration of the Host of HEAVEN.

BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, A. M.

FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE.

Η γαρ τον ἔρανον προσαράξειν, η τα κρυπτα της Ισιδος εκφανειν, η το εν αβυσσῳ απορρητον δείξειν, η σησειν την Βαριν, η τα μέλη το Οσι ριδος διασκεδάσειν τῳ Τυφωνί, η αλλο τι τοιούτον απείλει ποιήσειν. Jamb. de Myft. fect. vi. cap. 51.

VOL. II.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR:

And fold by F. and C. RIVINGTON London, and

W. HANWELL and J. PARKER Oxford.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAP. VII.

CONCERNING the facred terms Hiph or Siph, and

Cul or Col; and the various traditions founded upon

them.

CHAP. VIII.

The connection of the Argonautic voyage with the

helio-arkite fuperstition.

CHAP. IX.

The war of the Titans.

CHAP. X.

The identity and import of the feveral Mysteries of

Ifis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and the

Cabiri.A differtation on the Mithratic cavern.