"it's elementary, watson."
Dec. 31st, 2009 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jukeboxhound_backupI KNEW IT.
One of the religious symbols shown in the Sherlock Holmes movie (inside the 'spellbook') is a goat's head inside a pentagram with several Hebrew characters surrounding it. It's called the Sigil of Baphomet, and during the movie I got entirely distracted by it because the Church of Satan, who utilizes the Sigil as one of its main symbols, wasn't founded until the 1960s. Given that its creating magus Anton had a habit of reconstituting symbols from several sources, I thought maybe I was incorrect and that he'd adapted it from an earlier source. Some internet-ing later AND I KNEW I WAS RIGHT BWAHAHAHA TIME PERIOD FAIL. Okay, so Wiki claims a variant of it was published in 1897, which wouldn't be entirely out of the chronological ballpark, but the version used in the movie was distinctly of the 1960s' variety.
Wiki is brilliant and sums it up.
Further exploration of this matter is warranted.
One of the religious symbols shown in the Sherlock Holmes movie (inside the 'spellbook') is a goat's head inside a pentagram with several Hebrew characters surrounding it. It's called the Sigil of Baphomet, and during the movie I got entirely distracted by it because the Church of Satan, who utilizes the Sigil as one of its main symbols, wasn't founded until the 1960s. Given that its creating magus Anton had a habit of reconstituting symbols from several sources, I thought maybe I was incorrect and that he'd adapted it from an earlier source. Some internet-ing later AND I KNEW I WAS RIGHT BWAHAHAHA TIME PERIOD FAIL. Okay, so Wiki claims a variant of it was published in 1897, which wouldn't be entirely out of the chronological ballpark, but the version used in the movie was distinctly of the 1960s' variety.
Wiki is brilliant and sums it up.
Further exploration of this matter is warranted.
