The Cabires (in Greek old Κάβειροι / Kábeiroi , of Kabirim powerful , gods, or of Khaberim , gods associated; dii obvious, dii socii ), mysterious divinities adored in several places of the Greece, and especially in the islands of Samothrace and Imbros.

They were imported in Greece by the Phénicien S, but changed while merging with the divinities of the worship pelasgic. Originally, the Cabires gods formed tetrad whose names were: Axiéros, Axiocersus, Axiocersa and Cadmillusou Casmillus; later, these names were translated, sometimes in those of Vulcan, Mars, Venus, Amour or Harmonie; sometimes in those of Cérès, Pluto, Proserpine, Hermes or Mercury. Often also one confused Cabires with the Curètes, the Corybantes, the Dactyles and the Dioscures. One can, of the remainder, nothing to affirm of some on divinities which it was not even allowed to pronounce the name, nor on a worship which had mysteries even for the majority of its initiates. The large priest of the worship cabiric, called have , received the confession of those which were made initiate. The last ceremony of the initiation, which opened with the initiate the access mysteries, was called Thronisme: the initiate, after having undergone the most terrible tests, had sat on a throne bursting of light, the covered face of a veil, crowned of an olive branch and girds of a scarf, while all the priests and the mystes, being held by the hand, carried out around him dances symbolic systems. Énée, says one, made known Cabires with the Italy, where festivals were instituted in their honor.