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To: alt.magick From: bheidrick@aol.com (B Heidrick) Subject: Re: Baphomet (9410.baphomt.bh) Date: 499410xx Quoting: |tyagI@houseofkaos.Abyss.coM (tyagi mordred nagasiva) 93 |I'd love to see a discussion on the various ideas about what Baphomet |DOES or SHOULD include, It is important to distinguish between Baphomet and the Horned God of Wicca. Baphomet is an allegorical figure sometimes found as an element in Templar archetecture (see ruins at Lanlief), mentioned in perjury by the courts that tried the Templars, depicted as an androgine or a jimander, sometimes depicted with a goat's head and a general conformation a bit like Pan. Crowley favored a Roman Grotesque comprised of a ram's head for body, chicken feet, rooster's head, and a mask of Silenus for breast (with or without foot & leg in mouth). Since many depictions of Baphomet emphasize the goat head (or the chicken head), it is not correct to identify Baphomet with the Horned God of Wicca --- which latter is a derivative from prehistoric elk worship, apparently. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick
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