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Aka : Goat of Mendes
Shape : Often represented with the head of a goat and the body of a man but with wings and cloven feet (Eliphas Levi). A black cat. Also carry the heads of a cockerel.
Origin : Bapho-Mitras-son of Mithras or forged from Mahomet. The Knight Templars were accused of practicing their initiations and rituals in front of a large idol of the demon Baphomet.
Association : Aleister Crowley, Eliphas Levi
Quote :
We recur once more to that terrible number fifteen, symbolized in the Tarot by a monster throned upon an altar, mitered and horned, having a woman's breasts and the generative organs of a man -- a chimera, a malformed sphinx, a systhesis of deformities. Below this figure we read a frank and simple inscription -- the Devil. Yes, we confront here that phantom of all terrors, the dragon of all theogonies, the Ahriman of the Persians, the Typhon of the Egyptians, the Python of the Greeks, the old serpent of the Hebrews, the fantastic monster, the nightmare, the Croquemitaine, the gargoyle, the great beast of the Middle Ages, and -- worse than all of these -- the Baphomet of the Templars, the bearded idol of the alchemist, the obscene deity of Mendes, the goat of the Sabbath." Eliphas Levi
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