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The 1856 drawing of Baphomet by Éliphas Lévi served as a visual reference for the statue. Baphomet is a monumental bronze statue commissioned by the Satanic Temple, crowdfunded in 2014 and unveiled in 2015. The statue has figured in public challenges against the display of the Ten Commandments at two state capitols.
The statue of goat-headed Baphomet was blocked because of a 2017 Arkansas law that requires legislative sponsorship for consideration of any monument. [6] According to the Satanic Temple, the state legislature's rejecting one monument while allowing the other demonstrates an illegal religious preference. [ 5 ]
A vandal destroyed the Ten Commandments monument in 2014 and plans for the Baphomet statue were put on hold, as the Satanic Temple did not want their statue to stand alone at the capitol. After the Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the monument removed, the statue was unveiled elsewhere in Detroit [ 15 ] and is now on public display at Salem Art ...
A satanic "nativity" display involving an occult statue erected on Concord city property near the New Hampshire State Capitol was destroyed shortly after several vandalism incidents last week. Now ...
The Satanic Temple is making headlines this week after unveiling a 1-ton, 9-foot-tall statue at an industrial building near the Detroit River. The statue is of a Baphomet, a goat-headed idol found ...
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Erected under a policy granting religious groups space in the building for displays during the holiday season, the Satanic Temple of Iowa's installation centered on a statue of the horned pagan ...
Baphomet was allegedly worshipped as a deity by the medieval order of the Knights Templar. [4] King Philip IV of France had many French Templars simultaneously arrested, and then tortured into confessions in October 1307. [5] [6] The name Baphomet appeared in trial transcripts for the Inquisition of the Knights Templar that same year. [6]