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) 

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|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.

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Bill Heidrick