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Cabeiri
Important group of deities, probably of Phrygian origin, worshiped in Asia Minor and in Macedonia and N and central Greece. In classical times there were two males, Axiocersus and his son Cadmilus, and two females, Axierus and Axiocersa. They were promoters of fertility and protectors of seafarers. The male pair, the more important, was often confused with the Dioscuri. The Cabeiri were also identified with the Great Gods of Samothrace, and their cult reached its height in the 4th cent. BC.
Tabriz
City (pop., 1994 est.: 1,166,000), NW Iran. Earthquakes and invasions by Arabs, Turks, and Mongols have destroyed the city numerous times. The Turkish ruler Timur conquered it in 1392. During the next 200 years control passed several times between Iran and Turkey. During the 18th-19th cent., the Turks and Russians alternated occupation; they also fought over it in World War I. In the 1850s the Bab and 40,000 of his followers were executed there. Active in Iranian politics, it suffered bombing damage during the Iran-Iraq War (1980s). Notable ancient sites include the Blue Mosque (1465-66), renowned for the splendor of its blue tile decoration, and the remains of the 12-sided tomb of M. Ghazan.
Babel
Russian short-story writer. Born Jewish in Ukraine, Babel grew up in an atmosphere of persecution that is reflected in his stories. M. Gorky encouraged him to travel abroad to expand his horizons. Out of his experience as a soldier in the war with Poland came the stories in Red Cavalry (1926). His Odessa Tales (1931) include realistic and humorous sketches of the Jewish ghetto outside Odessa. Initially well regarded in the Soviet Union, in the late 1930s Babel's writing was found incompatible with official literary doctrine. He was arrested in 1939 and died in a Siberian prison camp. He is often thought of as Russia's greatest writer of short stories after A. Chekhov.
In the Old Testament, a high tower built in Shinar (Babylonia). According to Genesis 11:1-9, the Babylonians wanted to build a tower "with its top in the heavens." Angry at their presumption, God disrupted the enterprise by confusing the languages of the workers so that they could no longer understand each other. The tower was left unfinished and the people dispersed over the face of the earth. The myth may have been inspired by a tower temple located north of the Marduk temple and known as Bab-ilu ("Gate of God").
Babeuf
French political journalist and agitator. During the era of the French Revolution he advocated an equal distribution of land and income. For his part in a conspiracy to overthrow the Directory and institute a return to the Constitution of 1793, he was guillotined. His tactical strategies provided a model for left-wing movements of the 19th cent.
Cabell
U.S. writer. Born in Richmond, Va. to a distinguished family, he attacked Amer. orthodoxies and institutions in his ...
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