Facts about Baphomet

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   Peter Partner's 1982 book The Murdered Magicians helped popularize the connection between Baphomet and Templar conspiracy theories in modern historiography.

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   A significant modern legal controversy surrounding Baphomet arose when the Satanic Temple erected a bronze statue of the figure in public spaces to challenge government-sponsored religious monuments.

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   Scholarly debate links the word Baphomet etymologically to a corruption of 'Mahomet', the Old French rendering of the prophet Muhammad.

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   In modern occultism, Baphomet was adopted as an official symbol by Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, depicted within a goat-head-in-pentagram design known as the Sigil of Baphomet.

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   Accusations that the Knights Templar worshipped an idol called Baphomet formed a central charge during their persecution and trial by the French Inquisition in 1307.

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   The image of Baphomet as a winged, goat-headed hermaphroditic figure was created by occultist Eliphas Lévi and published in his 1854 work Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie.

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