"A Condensed History Of Goat Worship Through The Ages"

During the Crusades, the Knights Templar observe and casually adopt the worship of Baphomet... 1600s... The black goat then becomes a pivotal figure in the Black Mass, the Satanic inversion of the Catholic mass... Spanish painter Francisco Goya begins a series of works known as his “Black Paintings”. Among them is “Witches’ Sabbath”, which depicts a crowd of hoary old hags listening intently while a black goat preaches to them, and “The Great He-Goat”, depicting a similar scene... Eliphas Lévi publishes Dogma et Rituele de la Haute Magie, in which he describes the Baphomet we know so well—that of the “Sabbatic goat”. This is the popular image of Baphomet as the satanic black goat, or “Goat of Mendes” as Lévi calls it, that is so commonly used in Satanic literature and heavy metal imagery.