Baphomet - A Characteristic on the Name II
Expound is a tradition re the origin of the name Baphomet which
deserves CD, even whilst it is not regarded as true, having no
exhibit proponents.
This tradition regards the name as deriving from [baph4.jpg] - the Greek
name for the Egyptian goddess Bastet, recorded by Herodotus (2.137 ff). It
is attention-grabbing that Herodotus identifies the goddess with Artemis, the
goddess of the moon. Bubastis was regarded as the girl of Osiris and
Isis and habitually represented as a female with the overseer of a cat - cats were
regarded as sacred to her. Artemis was a goddess unimpressed by love and she
was regarded as Apollo's fold up sister (the class of her as a moon
goddess followed by instinct from this back Apollo was simultaneous with the sun).
Dearest Apollo, she habitually sent death and plagues, and was propitiated
sometimes with sacrifices.
It is attention-grabbing that (a) [baph5.jpg] is the Pythagorean name for five
[qv. Iamblicus: Theologumena Arithmeticae, 31] - possibly a share with the
pentagram?; (b) the Templars, with whom the name Baphomet is united,
were understood to grasp worshipped their deity in the form of a cat.
The tradition recorded finer, and the one described in part I, each one regard
Baphomet as a female idol - and each one are esoteric traditions, until now
accepted. It is material that each one are pull that is, that the actual
name Baphomet derives (as mentioned in part I) from the Greek [baph1.jpg]
: the prefix referring to the same as dyed/stained or dished in blood. The suffix
derives from mother or mistress hand-me-down in a devoted promontory (qv. Iamblicus De
Mysteriis). This name - Baphomet - is by this means a spokesperson one for the "dark"
(i.e lunar) goddess, to whom sacrifices were complete, and which was actually
familiar in deep-rooted grow old as Bubastis - that is, Bastet, to whom cats were
sacred. Consequently, Baphomet might be regarded as a form of Artemis/Bastet - a
female idol with a dark daub or affect (while viewed via synchronize
respectability) to whom sacrifices grasp been, and make longer to be, complete. Supernatural
tradition regards Baphomet as the Bride of Satan/Lucifer - this would fit
well back Lucifer is habitually regarded as a form of Apollo: Artemis is the
female form ('sister')of Apollo. Give to, it want be remembered that each one
Apollo and Artemis were not aetherial, healthy and important divinities (the
style gods grasp been idealistically misinterpreted) - they might be, and
habitually were, incurable and dark: each one dark and light.
