This beautiful Wiccan ritual room was creating using natural textures. The stairs and walls are burgundy velvet, the statues are malachite. The chairs and the candle sticks were created from geometric patterns created with my black onyx heart. Overall a lovely effect with a dark and somewhat bloody feeling. The symbols were carefully chosen from a large number available at the site linked below, who were kind enough to give me permission to use their graphics and text for this project.
The Goat of Mendes
First associated erroneously with Satanism in the 1960's, the Goat of Mendes, Mendes Pentacle, or Sabbatic Goat symbol was inaccurately attributed to the 19th century occultist, Elipas Levi. The Goat of Mendes symbol is often confused with Levi's depiction of the Templar icon Baphomet, which was never presented as a symbol of evil, but of harmony, redemption, and union with the divine. Nevertheless, the two are confused so often it is almost impossible to separate them. The name Goat of Mendes comes from a connection Levi made between the Templar Baphomet, the Goat of the witch's Sabbat (as depicted in popular art), and the Egyptian god Ammon of Mendes, Egypt, which Levi believed had been an emblem of fertility and sexual freedom. Later, it was determined that Levi's connection was wrong輸mmon was represented by a ram, not a goat傭ut the confusion remains to this day.