А

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 several Orgies of

ISIS, CERES, MITHRAS, BACCHUS, RHEA, ADONIṢ,
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 έρανον προσαράξειν, η τα κρυπτα της Ισιδος εκφανειν, η
το εν αβυσσῳ απορῥητον δειξειν, η σησειν την Βαριν, η τα μέλη τ8 Οσι
είδος διασκεδάσειν τῳ Τυφωνί, η αλλο τι τοιούτον απείλει ποιήσειν.
Jamb. de Myft. fect. vi. cap. 51.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR:

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

W. HANWELL and J. PARKER, Oxford.

STOR LIBRAR

1803.

WWW-YORK

TO THE

RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD

SAMUEL

LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH,

THIS WORK,

AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF VENERATION

JUSTLY DUE

TO SPLENDID TALENTS AND PROFOUND ERUDITION

UNIFORMLY AND SUCCESSFULLY DEVOTED

TO THE

CAUSE OF GENUINE RELIGION,

IS,

WITH PERMISSION,

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

HIS LORDSHIP'S MUCH OBLIGED

HUMBLE SERVANT,

GEORGE STANLEY FABER.