DISSERTATION

THE MYSTERIES

THE CABIRI;

OR THE

GREAT GODS OF PHOENICIA, SAMOTHRACE, EGYPT, TROAS, GREECE, ITALY, AND CRETE;

BEING

An Attempt to deduce the several mysteries of

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

FROM A

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.

“Either he will shake heaven, or he will reveal the secrets of Isis, or he will show the unspeakable things in the abyss, or he will set up the Baris (sacred boat), or he will scatter the limbs of Osiris for Typhon, or he will threaten to do something else of this kind.”

Original: "Η γαρ τον ουρανον προσαραξειν, η τα κρυπτα της Ισιδος εκφανειν, η το εν αβυσσω απορρητον δειξειν, η στησειν την Βαριν, η τα μελη του Οσιριδος διασκεδασειν τω Τυφωνι, η αλλο τι τοιουτον απειλει ποιησειν." (Iamblichus, On the Mysteries, Section VI, Chapter 5)

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR:

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

W. HANWELL and J. PARKER, Oxford.

1803.