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Pentagram With the
Goat's Head
Or the Goat of Mendes
This also is a very powerful Symbol in Satanism and Witchcraft.
The following information is by Kerr
Cuhulain -Occult author, police investigator, and friend of witches.
What better place to find out what the hand sign means than from the
Pagan community themselves.
Goat of Mendes:
The glossary in Watch Network's
Be Aware! handbook defines "goathead"
as "The Horned God, Goat of Mendes, Baphomet, God of the Witches,
the scapegoat. It is a Satanist's way of mocking Christ
as the 'lamb' who died for the sins of humanity". Alford's Occult
Crimes Investigations defines "Goat Head" as "The symbol for death
and is associated with Tammuz". Tammuz was an Assyro-Babylonian
vegetation and fertility God who appears as the lover of Ishtar in
the Epic of Gilgamesh. There is no mention of goats in any myth
associated to him. The animal associated to Tammuz is the boar, not
the goat.
Detective Don Rimer's "Symptoms Characterizing Occult Ritual Abuse"
contains a "Glossary of Occult Terms" which claims that "Satan
appears as a goat." Thomas Carder's ChildCare Action
Project/Christian Analysis of American Culture web site has this to
say about "GOATHEAD: Also known as the god of witches, the Goat of
Mendes, Baphomet, and the horned god. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of
God and performed the only pure and sin-free sacrifice for the
atonement of man's sins; past, present, and future. The goathead is
a black mockery of Jesus' role as the Lamb of God. It is the
Satanist's bird at Jesus. I am particularly enraged at this
waste of computer memory. Jesus died so I won't have to and He spent
three days in Hell so I won't have to. Evidently, the goathead is
the oldest fertility false god in human history and is claimed to
have been '...found on paintings from cavemen.' Baphomet (so called
after the time of Christ) actually means Bapho-Mitras: son of
Mithras. The Goat of Mendez is the god
of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of
ancient Egypt where fertility worship - Ba'al worship -- was
practiced). Masons admit readily that Baphomet is a pagan
fertility god and, more importantly, that Freemasonry is a fertility
cult religion. At any rate, this mockery of Jesus is a satanic
symbol and figures prominently in Satan worship."
This is more of that "horn phobia" that people of this sort seem to
be obsessed with. The association of the goat with Satan probably
originated in the custom of the scapegoat, as is hinted at here. In
Israel the sins of the tribes were ceremonially loaded onto the head
of a goat. This "scapegoat" represented the god Azazel, 'Messenger
of the Lord', who took these sins away each Day of Atonement. The
Horned God Azazel was actually a divine redeemer who took human sins
upon himself and atoned for them by his exile and/or death, and you
can read this for yourself in Leviticus 16:20 in the Bible: "An when
he has made an end of atoning for the Holy place and the tent of
meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat; and Aaron
shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess
over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their
transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head
of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of
the man who is in readiness. The goat shall bear all their
iniquities upon him into a solitary land; and he shall let the goat
go in the wilderness."
It may have been these early traditions that lead later Christian
clergy to associate the goat with Satan, their personification of
evil. Since many Pagan religions have nature deities that have horns
or antlers, these too were associated by early Christians with the
Devil, and this also may have played a part in the later association
of goats with the Devil. Clearly this wasn't meant as a Satanist's
way to mock Christ. I suggest that Rimer go back and reread his
Bible. It is true that the goat is associated with the Devil by many
modern Christians, but if you look in the Bible you will see that he
is described as a serpent.
You see how Carder has combined the myth concerning Baphomet with
the myth of the Goat of Mendes. None of the traditional theories of
the etymology of Baphomet include the idea that it means "son of
Mithras": This is Carder's invention. Note how he is trying to turn
Baal into an Egyptian deity here. Note also how he has brought the
Freemasons into his argument. Carder does not identify the source of
his quotes about cave drawings. Mendez is not an alternate term for
Mendes.
The Goat of Mendes is another entity that seems to make his way into
fundamentalist literature of this sort. Mendes is a contraction of
the Greek name Mendesius, given to the kingdom of Lower Egypt. The
God of Pa-bi-neb-tat ("the dwelling of the Lord of Spirit, Lord of
Tat"), the principal city of Mendes, was Nesa-Bi-Neb-Tat,
represented as a man with the head of a ram. This deity was later
associated with Ra, the Egyptian Sun God, the ram headed man
becoming a symbol of Ra. The Goat of Mendes subsequently appeared in
Occidental Magical literature: In the magical system of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
the Goat of Mendes is a
mythical figure mentioned in the Rite of the Pentagram and the Five
Paths.
In modern Christian and Satanic literature the Devil is depicted as
a man with goat attributes so it was perhaps inevitable that these
religious groups should interpret the Goat of Mendes as a Satanic
symbol. The Satanists, in turn, adopted this symbol as their own
from the Christian misinterpretation. For example, the Goat of
Mendes is described as an aspect of the Devil that is half man and
half goat in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible.
Source of Information (warning: This is an occult link)
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