Zongman: I Travel Through Countless Worlds At The Same Time

457. Sheep-Headed Demon Buffalo

In the next second, Higashino Yu directly released layers of blockades, hitting Apollo far away.

"Little ghost, do you want to break the contract?"

Seeing this scene, the Marquis of Vauban couldn't help staring.

"No, how could it be, old man, I am afraid that you will break the contract. Come on, let's summon again, and then I will return~ this guy to you.

"Hmph, I hope you say-do it."

The Marquis of Vauban snorted coldly, and stood in the magic circle again.

Just now he really thought about running away after finishing the fight, but he didn't expect this kid to be so vigilant.

"Then you are always ready, and now I will start calling."

"Be full, be full..."

Accompanied by the chanting of the spell, the magic circle once again burst into dazzling light.

This time, a new god of disobedience appeared in front of the two of them again.

The sheep-headed demon Buffalo.

Baphomet is one of the famous Christian demons, the most well-known goat-headed demon today, and a synonym for Satan.

The origin of the name is uncertain, but it is said that its name comes from the Greek "baphe" and "metis", which means "to absorb knowledge".

It is the origin of the authority of the Marquis of Vauban [The Book of Spells Recited].

In fact, the Marquis of Vauban used to use this power often to tease the knowledge of magicians and warlocks.

As long as he directly ordered the page to be turned when needed, he could order the spell book to activate the magic.

It's just that after he obtained the cage of servants of death, he felt that it was more convenient to use the living corpse, so he stopped using this magic.

"Okay, kid, you deal with this guy, the old man is going to destroy that sun god."

The Marquis of Vauban glanced at Yu Higashino, and then at the demon in the distance, feeling happy.

For him, the power obtained from this demon is simply tasteless [Now he has imagined Higashino Yuu's deflated expression after discovering that he has obtained a useless power.

"Ah, hurry up, old man, maybe that guy will run away if it's too late."

Higashino Yu looked at the face of the demon in front of him with great interest.

Unlike the Marquis of Vauban, who can only shake his fists, Higashino Yuu thinks he should be regarded as a researcher.

And if he can also obtain the [Spell Book of Chanting], it is entirely possible to use this ability to grasp the 13000 original books of grimoires.

In addition, there is also the knowledge of the month.

You must know that although ancient document magic is good, it always has a limit compared with power.

And now the reason why his ancient documents can contain a lot of knowledge that others can't, is just because he is Higashino Yu, so the limit of ancient documents exceeds many people.

At this time, he looked at the sheep-headed demon in front of him, and a golden sword appeared in his hand, and he didn't say anything anymore that he was just fighting with his body.

Nothing else, but because he is too familiar with this demon.

In July 2015, a 2.7-meter-tall bronze statue was erected at an undisclosed location in Detroit, Michigan.

The statue is of a winged man with a goat's head and goat's hooves, flanked by two children who adore him.

Baphomet first appeared in a poem related to Muhammad in the late 12th century, and in the early 14th century as the title of a pagan idol, it appeared in the records of the trial of the Templars by the Inquisitor.

In the 19th century, the name came into focus again with the publication of a series of pseudo-historical works that attempted to link the Templars to a conspiracy theory.

Since then, "Baphomet" has been associated with the "Sabbath Sheep" painted by French mystic Elifa Levi.

From ancient times to the present, Baphomet has been called by many different names, including the Mendes goat, the thousand-year-old sheep, the dark sheep, and the sheep of Judah, and the most appropriate one may be the scapegoat.

Baphomet represents the union of the dark powers with the production, fertility of the goat. The Hebrew letters surrounding the symbol spell out Leviathan—the basilisk of the waters of the abyss, that is, Satan.

In some contemporary Neo-Pagan and Wiccan circles, Baphomet has come to represent the embodiment of the life force, like Pan or Dionysus.

But what did the name Baphomet originally refer to? And where did the image of the goat's head come from?

...asking for flowers...

Looking at each other, Higashino Yukiri's golden sword shone brighter and brighter.

In the end, countless golden balls of light even appeared directly around Higashino Yu.

And his narration didn't stop.

Someone is looking for the answer from the French mystic writer Elifa Levy's "The Sheep of the Sabbath: Mendes Buffalo".

Mendes is the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city Jedet, where the residents believe that all goats are sacred, and the male goat is even more sacred than the female goat. The male goat is the most sacred. After it dies, It is to be mourned throughout the Mendez region.

In Egyptian, "Mendes" is both the name of the billy goat and the god Pan. One of the patron saints of the city is Banai Bujdet, the ram god, who is sometimes depicted as a goat.

Levi's depiction of Bhaphne differs from the statue in The Satanic Temple in that the former's Bhaphne is androgynous, with a pair of female breasts;

The proper nouns of alchemy, SOLVE (separate, dissolve) and COAGULA (solidify, join together) are on its right forearm and left forearm respectively; two crescent moons are respectively in the direction pointed by the two fingers, one is brighter and the other is darker.

Interpretations of Levi's Baphomet often emphasize the unity of opposites—male and female, good and evil, day and night—as representatives of all things.

Levi himself described it as a "pantheistic and uncanny absolute image".

The sheep's head represents matter and the body, while the sheep's wings symbolize providence or nature.

Four elements are present: sitting on a globe (Earth); fish scales adorning its belly (Water); its wings signify air, and between its two horns burns a flame

In "The Creeds and Rituals of Higher Magic", Levi reiterated his belief that the figure of Bhaphne is the symbol of the whole occult philosophy hidden in the great works of pre-classical Greek mythology, Kabbalah, Hermetic anthology and alchemists , because "they are different expressions of the same secret".

"The Gnostics depicted it as the body of the Holy Spirit; the figure of Baphomet, or the androgynous Mendez, was worshiped as one of the objects of worship on the Sabbath and in the mysteries of the temple," he said.