B for Baphomet

Freaks A-Z. Letter "B"

Size: 210mm x 297mm

Material:Charcoal pen

Baphomet is an imagined pagan deity, revived in the 19th century as a figure of occultism and Satanism. Often mistaken for Satan, it represents the duality of male and female, as well as Heaven and Hell or night and day signified by the raising of one arm and the downward gesture of the other. It can be taken in fact, to represent any of the major harmonious dichotomies of the cosmos. It first appeared in 11th and 12th century Latin and Provençal as a corruption of "Mahomet", the Latinisation of "Muhammad", but later it appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisitionof the Knights Templar in the early 14th century. The name first came into popular English-speaking consciousness in the 19th century, with debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.Since 1855, the name Baphomet has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Lévi. 

巴風特有名基督教惡魔之一，這個名字的起源尚無定論，它最早出現於12世紀晚期一首與穆罕默德有關的普羅旺斯語詩篇中，在14世紀初又作為異教偶像的稱呼出現在異端裁判所對聖堂武士（聖殿騎士）的審訊筆錄中。然而到了19世紀，這一名稱隨著一系列偽歷史作品的出版又進入了以英語為母語的人們的視線，這些作品試圖將聖堂武士與一系列陰謀論聯繫起來。「巴風特」從此開始與法國神秘主義學者埃利法斯·利維所畫的「安息日之羊」有關。