“ The substitution of Hades for Hephaestus is due to the fact that Hades was regarded as the husband of Persephone. Cabeiro, who is mentioned in the logographers Acusilaus and Pherecydes as the wife of Hephaestus, is identical with Demeter, who indeed is expressly called Καβειρία in Thebes. Roman antiquarians identified the Cabeiri with the three Capitoline deities or with the Penates. In Lemnos an annual festival of the Cabeiri was held, lasting nine days, during which all the fires were extinguished and fire brought from Delos. ”

“ W. H. Roscher, Lexikon der Mythologie (s.v. “Megaloi Theoi”) ; L. Preller, Griechische Mythologie (4th ed., appendix) ; and the article by F. Lenormant in Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités. ”