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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:45 pm
by Yog-Sothoth
yeah, monkeys arent really good for that kinda work, i mean, seriously, Cthulhu 2000
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:58 pm
by Yog-Sothoth
Holy crap! big news! i found what the Sacred Bad Book of the Church of Cthulhu should be! it is the simon necronomicon, but the oen that is needed for the altar, THE NECRONOMICON HARDCOVER EDDITION! quick, we need $666.00 plus shipping to get this thing!
http://cgi.ebay.com/NECRONOMICON-Hardco ... dZViewItem
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:16 pm
by JJ Burke
the check (cheque) is in the mail (post)
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:28 pm
by Yog-Sothoth
seriosuly, we gotta get that thing, man!
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:30 am
by Jesus Prime
$666 dollars for a fake book?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:46 pm
by odin2
It also comes with a Statue!!
Okay lets see how much do I have....1....2..5...yep thats 10 cents, so now we just need $559.90....
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:09 pm
by Jesus Prime
Since when did the Baphomet have a body?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:13 pm
by odin2
Since Eliphas Lévi made it with one...
Eliphas Levi and Baphomet
In his 19th-century Occultist reincarnation, a well known depiction shows Baphomet in the form of a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on his head between his horns (illustration, right). This image comes from Eliphas Lévi's 1854 Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (English translation Transcendental Magic). Lévi considered the Baphomet to be a depiction of the absolute in symbolic form and explicated in detail his symbolism in the drawing that served as the frontispiece:
"The goat on the frontispiece carries the sign of the pentagram on the forehead, with one point at the top, a symbol of light, his two hands forming the sign of hermetism, the one pointing up to the white moon of Chesed, the other pointing down to the black one of Geburah. This sign expresses the perfect harmony of mercy with justice. His one arm is female, the other male like the ones of the androgyn of Khunrath, the attributes of which we had to unite with those of our goat because he is one and the same symbol. The flame of intelligence shining between his horns is the magic light of the universal balance, the image of the soul elevated above matter, as the flame, whilst being tied to matter, shines above it. The ugly beast's head expresses the horror of the sinner, whose materially acting, solely responsible part has to bear the punishment exclusively; because the soul is insensitive according to its nature and can only suffer when it materializes. The rod standing instead of genitals symbolizes eternal life, the body covered with scales the water, the semi- circle above it the atmosphere, the feathers following above the volatile. Humanity is represented by the two breasts and the androgyn arms of this sphinx of the occult sciences."
Levi called his image “the Baphomet of Mendes”. There is no historical connection with the actual ram deity Banebdjed (lit. Ba of the lord of djed, and titled "the Lord of Mendes"), who was the Ba of Osiris.
Levi combined the images of the Tarot of Marseilles Devil card and refigured the ram of Banebdjed, worshipped in the city of Mendes, the Greek name of ancient Djedet in Egypt, as a he-goat, imagined as “copulator in Anep and inseminator in the district of Mendes”.
From wikipedia
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:16 pm
by Jesus Prime
Oh. I hear "Baphomet", I think "Icon of Sin", and assume John Romero made the name up.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:32 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
a well known depiction shows Baphomet in the form of a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on his head between his horns.
Sounds like something from pledge night at any given fraternity.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:42 pm
by Jesus Prime
We don't have those here.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:19 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
No winged goats with double Ds and archaic mining hats?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:22 pm
by Jesus Prime
No, we farm those. It's fraternities we don't have.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:28 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
Time to start one, then.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:46 pm
by Jesus Prime
See, then there's more restrictions on whose woman it's okay to steal.