https://en.teopedia.org/w-lib/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mendes Mendes - Revision history 2026-05-05T20:58:24Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.2 https://en.teopedia.org/w-lib/index.php?title=Mendes&diff=12221&oldid=prev Tima: Created page with "{{CTD article |term=Mendes |person=No |origin={{tip|Gr}} |description=The name of the ''demon‐goat, ''alleged by the Church of Rome to have been ''worshipped ''by the Templa..." 2023-06-21T21:27:52Z <p>Created page with &quot;{{CTD article |term=Mendes |person=No |origin={{tip|Gr}} |description=The name of the &#039;&#039;demon‐goat, &#039;&#039;alleged by the Church of Rome to have been &#039;&#039;worshipped &#039;&#039;by the Templa...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{CTD article<br /> |term=Mendes<br /> |person=No<br /> |origin={{tip|Gr}}<br /> |description=The name of the &#039;&#039;demon‐goat, &#039;&#039;alleged by the Church of Rome to have been &#039;&#039;worshipped &#039;&#039;by the Templars and other Masons. But this goat was a myth created by the evil fancy of the &#039;&#039;odium theologicum. &#039;&#039;There never was such a creature, nor was its worship known among Templars or their predecessors, the Gnostics. The god of Mendes, or the Greek Mendesius, a name given to Lower Egypt in pre‐Christian days, was the ram‐headed god Ammon, the living and holy spirit of &#039;&#039;Ra&#039;&#039;, the life‐giving sun; and this led certain Greek authors into the error of affirming that the Egyptians called the “goat” (or the &#039;&#039;ram&#039;&#039;‐ headed god) himself, Mendes. Ammon was for ages the chief deity of Egypt, the supreme god; &#039;&#039;Amoun‐Ra &#039;&#039;the “hidden god”, or &#039;&#039;Amen &#039;&#039;(the concealed) the &#039;&#039;Self&#039;&#039;‐&#039;&#039;engendered &#039;&#039;who is “his own father and his own son”. Esoterically, he was &#039;&#039;Pan&#039;&#039;, the god of nature or nature personified, and probably the cloven foot of Pan the &#039;&#039;goat‐footed&#039;&#039;, helped to produce the error of this god being a goat. As Ammon’s shrine was at &#039;&#039;Pa‐bi‐neb‐tat, &#039;&#039;“the dwelling of &#039;&#039;Tat &#039;&#039;or Spirit, Lord of Tat” (&#039;&#039;Bindedi &#039;&#039;in the Assyrian inscriptions), the Greeks first corrupted the name into &#039;&#039;Bendes &#039;&#039;and then into &#039;&#039;Mendes &#039;&#039;from “Mendesius”. The “error” served ecclesiastical purposes too well to be made away with, even when recognized {{ctd-source|TG}}.<br /> }}</div> Tima