The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baphomet \Baph"o*met\, n. [A corruption of Mahomet or Mohammed, the Arabian prophet: cf. Pr. Bafomet, OSp. Mafomat, OPg. Mafameda.] An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
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Baphomet (; from Medieval Latin Baphometh, Baffometi, Occitan Bafometz) is a term originally used to describe an idol or other deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping, and that subsequently was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions. It appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 14th century. The name first came into popular English usage in the 19th century, with debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.
Since 1856, the name Baphomet has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Levi which contains binary elements representing the "sum total of the universe" (e.g. male and female, good and evil, etc.).
Baphomet is a demonic image used in occult and historical references.
Baphomet may also refer to:
- Baphomet (Dungeons & Dragons), a demon lord in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- The Baphomet, a piece of experimental fiction from 1965
- Baphomet (comics), a demonic entity in the Marvel Comics universe
- Behemoth (band) or Baphomet, a Polish blackened death metal band
- Baphomet (DC comics), a supporting character in Batman: The Widening Gyre
- Baphomet, a character in Cabal by Clive Barker
- Baphomet, a character of 8-Bit Theater
- Baphomet, a boss character in Ragnarok Online
- Baphomet, a boss enemy in La-Mulana
- /baphomet/ a sub-board on the imageboard 8chan
In songs:
- "Baphomet", a 1980 song by Angel Witch from the 2000 re-issue of Angel Witch
- "Baphomet", a song by Dark Fortress from Eidolon
- "Baphomet", a song by Grave Digger from Knights of the Cross
- "Baphomet", a song by Quicksand from Slip
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: B#Baphomet
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Usage examples of "baphomet".
Her words came clearly to me, perhaps because they were filtered through Baphomet.
The Grail has been called the Luciferian Stone, which points to the figure of Baphomet.
Then of course the mysteries of Isis, Mithra, Morpheus, Samothrace, and Eleusis, and the natural mysteries of the male sex, phallus, Wood of Life, Key of Science, Baphomet, mallet, then the natural mysteries of the female sex, Ceres, Cteis, Patera, Cybele, Astarte.
Why did one of my alembiques strike my head, and my plaster Baphomet, it falls to the floor, and that a memento of my late father, and on the wall three writings appear in red, ordures I cannot repeat, hein?
They were rosettes, but on some of them was carved a bearded caprine face: Baphomet.
I am bent over, and with a searing brand I am made the eternal prey of the jailer as the evil smile of Baphomet is impressed forever on my shoulder.
It was cowardice and ignorance that kept King Philip’s inquisitors from seeing that the spitting on the cross, the kiss on the anus, the black cat, and the worship of Baphomet were simply a repetition of other ceremonies, ceremonies performed under the influence of the first secret the Templars learned in the Orient: the use of hashish.
I have prepared myself in silence and meditation upon the mystery of the Baphomet, in the knowledge that the Great Work revolves around six intact seals, and only at the end will we know the secret of the seventh.
At the summit of the first, a dove of the Holy Spirit with a glory of stone rays, but on the second, besieged by praying angels, there he is, the Baphomet, with his awful wings.
The Inverted Pentagram --- Baphomet --- the Hermaphrodite fully grown --- begets himself on himself as V again.
It is the original being --- Zeus Arrhenothelus, Bacchus Diphues, or Baphomet.
I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three.
The Templars honored Baphomet by encircling a stone replica of his head and chanting prayers.
The Pope used the head of Baphomet as the linchpin in his case against the Templars.
The modern belief in a horned devil known as Satan could be traced back to Baphomet and the Church's attempts to recast the horned fertility god as a symbol of evil.