What do satanic symbols mean

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If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? But who is the goat-headed figure? And what do the elements of the statue symbolise? The bronze statue is nearly 9ft tall and depicts a winged hermaphrodite known as Baphomet, flanked by two smiling children.

Long term, the Satanic Temple wants to move the piece miles 1,km south-west and erect it opposite a Ten Commandments monument outside Oklahoma City's Capitol Building.

This plan was thrown into doubt when Oklahoma's Supreme Court ruled that the use of state property to benefit a religion is banned under the state constitution - the fate of both the Satanist statue and the Ten Commandments monument is now unclear. The name dates back to the Inquisition and torture of the Knights Templar about who, according to French chroniclers of the Crusades, confessed to worshipping a heathen idol called Baphometh. Some scholars believe "Baphometh" was simply a corruption of "Mahomet" - the Prophet Muhammad.

But over the years as the mystery and speculation around the Templars has grown, so too have the interpretations of the word and its meaning. One elaborate interpretation even drove the plot in Dan Brown's historical thriller Da Vinci Code, where the word Baphomet is decoded and translated to mean "Sophia" or wisdom.

He envisaged a winged hermaphrodite with a torch between his horns and a pentagram on his forehead. Levi's drawing was the inspiration for the Satanic Temple's new monument. Male and female," says Greaves. Two fingers on the right hand point up and two on the left hand point down, meaning "as above, so below". These words and the accompanying gesture are familiar to occultists.

And Hindu has been around far longer than that. So who stole from who exactly. Perhaps, before spewing self-righteous twaddle, you should do some more research on not only the inaccuracy, although mild , of your historical claims, but also how these symbols do have certain meanings, but were mostly intended to be interpreted as opposed to understood.

Woah woah here you are ranting about symbols and their meanings when you are unaware what they mean And the symbol for Satanism is an upside down pentagram. I think but all of these things can mean whatever people want them to mean. Well, people of course.

And in Christianity, the triangle represents the trinity. But for some other people, it represents the eye of Horus. And of course you have Freemasons with their own ideas. The meaning is in the eye of the beholder… No pun intended! If you hear an ex-satanist reveal the inner workings and purpose of their agenda, these symbols have an entirely different purpose.

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