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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[A corruption of

Mahomet

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.

A 19th century image of a Sabbatic Goat created by Éliphas Lévi.

Baphomet

A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that pagans, the Knights Templar and (sometimes) Muslims worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.

pagan deity