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Baphomet (English pronunciation: /ˈbæfɵmɛt/) is an imagined pagan deity (i.e., a product of Christian folklore concerning pagans), revived in the 19th century as a figure of Satanism. It firstappeared in a late 12th-century Provençal poem as a corruption of "Muhammad",[1] but later it appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early14th century. In the 19th century the name came into popular English-speaking consciousness with the publication of various works of pseudo-history that tried to link the Knights Templar withconspiracy theories elaborating on their suppression. The name Baphomet then became associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Lévi.
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1 History
2 Eliphas Levi
3 AleisterCrowley
4 As a demon
5 Alternative etymologies
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
[edit]History

The name Baphomet first appears around 1195 in the Occitan poem "Senhors, per losnostres peccatz" by the troubadour Gavaudan.[2] Around 1250 in a poem bewailing the defeat of the Seventh Crusade, Austorc d'Aorlhac refers to "Bafomet". De Bafomet is also the title of one of foursurviving chapters of an Occitan translation of Ramon Llull's earliest known work, the Libre de la doctrina pueril, "book on the instruction of children".[3]
When the medieval order of the Knights Templarwas suppressed by King Philip IV of France, on October 13, 1307, Philip had many French Templars simultaneously arrested, and then tortured into confessions. The name Baphomet comes up in several ofthese confessions, in reference to an idol of some type that the Templars were alleged to have worshipped. The description of the object changed from confession to confession. Some Templars denied anyknowledge of it. Others, under torture, described it as being either a severed head, a cat, or a head with three faces.[4]

Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856) associated a series of carved...