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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.
In 2014, The Satanic Temple commissioned an 8.5 ft (2.6 m) statue of Baphomet to stand alongside a monument of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol, citing "respect for diversity and religious minorities" as reasons for the monument.
Le génie du mal (French pronunciation: [lΙ Κeni dy mal]; or The Genius of Evil or The Spirit of Evil), known informally in English as Lucifer or The Lucifer of Liège [1] is a religious sculpture executed in white marble and installed in 1848 by the Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs.
The statue reflects the themes of good and evil in Goethe's Faust. [1] In the play, Faust is frustrated with his life and attempts suicide. He calls for Satan's help, and the demon Mephistopheles, an agent of Satan, responds.
In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu (Akkadian: ππ ππͺπͺ, romanized: pà.zu.zu) [2] is a demonic deity who was well known to the Babylonians and Assyrians throughout the first millennium BCE. [3]
The statue of the horned deity Baphomet was brought to the Capitol by the Satanic Temple of Iowa under state rules allowing religious displays in the building during the holidays. The move drew ...
The Swansea Devil, also called Old Nick, is a wood carving of the Devil in Swansea, Wales. It was carved by an architect whose designs for St. Mary's Church had been rejected by a committee. Some years later when designing an office building across the road, he placed a carving of Satan facing the church and prophesied "When your church is ...
St Michael's Victory over the Devil (1958), at Coventry Cathedral. St Michael's Victory over the Devil is a 1958 bronze sculpture by Jacob Epstein, displayed on the south end of the east wall outside of the new Coventry Cathedral, [1] above the steps leading up from Priory Street to the cathedral's entrance and beside the stained glass of John Piper's bowed baptistry window.