The sword has two snakes wrapped around it with a pair of angel wings above it. The Pagan Deity has it on his lap or perhaps it is in him and the wings are his own in some imagery of him. The sword in Greek mythology belongs to the God Hermes. This sword is also shown in multiple other religions such as Satanism. What does it mean? why? How are all the religions connected?
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Baphomet is not a deity. It's Masonic symbology originating with the Knights Templar. It's a teaching tool. It's not 'pagan'. The sword or staff of Hermes is the symbol for a physician or medical doctor. The two snakes represent human DNA and the sword is the backbone. The wings represent the two hemispheres of the brain with the pineal gland in the center.
HERMES...A Greek god; the son of Zeus by Maia, identified by the Romans with their god of commerce, Mercury. Hermes was regarded as the messenger of the gods. He was believed to be the discreet counselor of the heroes and was considered to be the god of commerce, skillful speech, gymnastic skill, sleep, and dreams. It was believed that this god not only guided the living but also conducted the dead to Hades.
According to the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baphomet’ is not mentioned in the Bible. Baphomet is a term originally used to describe an idol or other deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping and that subsequently was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions
The deities that have been and still are worshiped by the nations are human
creations, the products of imperfect, “empty-headed” men, who “turned the glory of the incorruptible God into something like the image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed creatures and creeping things.”
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