Baphomet

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

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Baphometh, deriving from Occitan Bafometz. Ostensibly a corruption of Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately deriving from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (compare Old Catalan Mafumet and Old Galician-Portuguese Mafomat), which would make it a doublet of mammet and Muhammad. But other sources have been suggested.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbæfəmɛt/

Proper noun

Baphomet

  1. A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.

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