Goat of Mendes
Mysteries of Freemasonry Templar Hall
The Baphomet is one of the main visual signifiers of Satanic power in the 21st century, but its origins can be found in a mish-mash of pagan visuals that paint the figure as more of a spooky catchall that has to be imbued with meaning from the viewer rather than as something with any inherent meaning. The Baphomet has been around since the 14th century and was first used by the Knights Templar as an idol, but depictions of what the Baphomet was changed from person to person. Under the duress of torture, various Knights Templar described the Baphomet as a severed head, a cat, or a head with three faces.
It wasn’t until Eliphas Levi, the French Satanist who first inverted the pentagram, created a cannonical version of the Baphomet in the 1850s (at least 400 years after the Knights Templar were first tortured) that the goat creature you know and love began to take shape. Levi was inspired by a depiction of the Devil in early Tarot cards, and then he mixed in Occult, Kabbalistic, and Catholic imagery to form a Satanic representation of binary opposites.
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