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| | Craftsmen Figures of Greek Mythology |
 | | The Cabiri, whose native land was Lemnos and whose principal sanctuary was in Samothrace are said to have had Hephaestus for a father, or at least for a divine ancestor (Strabo, Geo 10.3.21; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. |
 | | Marine powers, they are explicitly identified as crabs by Hesychius: "The Cabiri are crabs (karkinoi), animals particularly honored in Lemnos, where they are held to be gods. |
 | | It is also said that they are the sons of Hephaestus" (Hesychius, s.v. |
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