The Baphomet of Mendes
The figure is routinely called an ancient Templar idol. In the Templar trial confessions the name Baphomet is attached to an idol, usually described as a head, never a winged goat; the horned figure is Éliphas Lévi's own drawing of 1856, combining the witches' sabbath goat, the goat of Mendes and alchemical androgyny.
The Templar trial depositions (1307–1312); Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars (1978); Peter Partner, The Murdered Magicians (1982); Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1856)
A winged, goat-headed figure drawn by a nineteenth-century French occultist, now the most recognisable image associated with the name Baphomet.