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** Thebes, which Zeus is said to have been given to her as an acknowledgement for a favour she had bestown to him.

Pausanias records a grove of Cabeirian Demeter and the Maid, three miles outside the gates of Thebes, where a ritual was performed, so called on the grounds that Demeter gave it to the Cabeiri, who established it at Thebes.

The Thebans told Pausanias that some inhabitants of Naupactus had performed the same rituals there, and had met with divine vengeance.

The Cabeirian mysteries were introduced from Asia Minor at the end of the archaic period.

There is not any information of the older cult, and it seems that the Cabeiri were originally wine-daemons.

Inscriptions from the temple in Thebes mention the old one Cabir, and the new one son ( pais ), who are different.

According to Pausanias, Pelarge the daughter of Potnieus, was connected with the cult of Demeter in the Cabeirian ( potniai ).