New Springer Mount Is A Satanic Symbol?

The newest springer mount looks way to much like Baphomet. You will find this symbol and idol in old religions like Baal Worship, and Church of Satan.

" It was this image that was later adopted as the official symbol—called the Sigil of Baphomet—of the Church of Satan, and continues to be used among Satanists"

Here is the Wiki for a basic run down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet#cite_note-churchofsatan.com-66

I hope so ... that would be awesome bad.

Only the head is anywhere near close. Everything else is different. It's not a satanic symbol.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4154/5085086568_ae4818800e_b.jpg

Looks more like a springbuck to me.

Different horn shape, different face, different ears, no human body, no feather wings... so no? It looks like a Thompson's gazelle mixed with a goat put on the springer skeleton.

The only thing satanic about Arenanet is whoever came up with that Chalice of Tears jumping puzzle.

Likely the mount is based off the ibex...probably more specifically the spanish ibex if I am remembering my horns right. Its a large goatlike animal that often navigates cliff walls and rocky terrain with precision leaping (sound familiar) and superb balance. These guys do stuff that would make you turn an unfortunately placed lump of coal into a diamond just watching them.

Sometimes a goat is just a goat.

Youtube for further research...go Nat Geo. Just watch it muted...the narrator...omg...

Actually, probably more like the fictional jackalope: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/eb/d0/71/ebd071bfc3c6f2b6bb3f990664a116c1--mythological-creatures-rabbits.jpg

They should charge extra for that...

That's an insult. The image on the right doesn't chew disgustingly and not as ugly as the thing on the left with a "rock beard".

By the way Satanists don't actually worship Satan...

Someone already tried this topic on the old forum with the Zodiac Staff (that has a goat head). Really people. Quit seeing demons behind each item that has a goat head.

Please, even as a Christian I can acknowledge that this is a goat Springer, not a demon with a pentagram and goat horns. Please--just don't. Just because demons are depicted with goat bits doesn't make all goat animals demons. Stop mixing clearly animalistic fantasy depictions with truly evil demonic representations.

No, it's not. Stop it.

Please stop trying to be offended.

... this is the same guy who had a problem with the new Legendary focus being named after some real-life occultist text.

Y'know, the feller who warned us against it because he actually thinks the occult is real?

Just ignore the thread and move on, people. This one is too far gone to be reasoned with.

It's a goat, an Ibex mountain goat to be specific. Goat-based imagery are used as satanic/demonic/pagan symbols. The two are not related.

@"Cobrakon.3108" said:You will find this symbol ......anywhere in which people might encounter goats, or rams, or other sorts of similar animals with horns. It's no surprise that many religions include horned gods, too.

The mount is the child of a Charr.It's missing a few charromosomes, though.

I was waiting for post like this since the Mount was released.You did not disappoint me!

Lol people looking to get offended over anything, The Springer mount looks nothing like Baphomet, different horn shape different face etc.

@Oglaf.1074 said:... this is the same guy who had a problem with the new Legendary focus being named after some real-life occultist text.

Y'know, the feller who warned us against it because he actually thinks the occult is real?

Just ignore the thread and move on, people. This one is too far gone to be reasoned with.

That's fake news. I don't believe I said anything about a legendary focus.

@Cobrakon.3108 said:

@Oglaf.1074 said:... this is the same guy who had a problem with the new Legendary focus being named after some real-life occultist text.

Y'know, the feller who warned us against it because he actually thinks the occult is real?

Just ignore the thread and move on, people. This one is too far gone to be reasoned with.

Unless he's got a secondary account that he created simply to make that thread against the legendary focus, I can confirm that Cobrakon is not the person with the issue with the legendary focus. That was someone else. Just search the forum. It was a thread asking ANet to not use real world names anymore.

@OP Like most of the others here I'm not seeing the similarities. None of the symbolism of the Levi goat figure is present in this mount skin. Nothing in the character design of the new mount says "harmony of opposites" or "vanguard teacher of the occult socialist revolution" to me. Quite the reverse in fact - this mount is a literal herd animal.

Also do correct me if I'm wrong (unless it would derail the topic too much), but is there really a connection between Baphomet and the Ba'al of the real-world Tyrians? I thought Baphomet was invented during the period of the crusades either by the Knights Templar, or a group who were trying to slander them.

Looking at the OP's thread picture -- The infamous Devil Bunny of ArenaNet if I'm not mistaken -- reminds me of that time, way back when, I came face-to-face with one of the more heinous, evil, deceitful, horrendous beings that ever came out of myth and nature.

So there I was, fishing off of some dock or other; it was in a country I can't remember, of a people whom spoke in a language I couldn't understand, and it was night, cloudy and cold -- oh, so very cold. I began to pack up my things -- well, really I thought about packing up, but I was lazy so I just sat for a while thinking about leaving for the night -- WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN....I heard something: an automobile just down the road from where I was fishing. It startled me, I sat up and remembered something: I had food in my travel pack,....A PACK THAT WAS IN THE TRUNK OF MY CAR(not really my car, but a rental; I was in a different country you know). So there I was, walking back to the car -- I was hungry too, that I remember -- WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN....I felt something in my pocket: It was a half-can of chew. 'Yes,' I thought(or said, maybe I said the word 'yes', I can't recall.), 'I chew tobacco! Don't mind if I do.' As I began pulling the can out of my pocket, I looked to my left -- bare in mind I have looked to the left my whole life and nothing bad ever happened -- And that's when I saw it:

Or they I should say; Jackalope run in packs if you didn't know -- THAT'S RIGHT! I SAID 'JACKALOPE'! EVIL, MEAN, NASTY THINGS WITH ANTLERS ON THEIR HEADS. ANTLERS THAT LOOK LIKE THE HORNS OF THE INFAMOUS DEVIL BUNNY OF ArenaNet(If I'm not mistaken). The first one, that is the one I saw first, just...stared at me. It's beady eyes never blinked, and did those beady eyes turn red when I stared back! And I watched as it's massive paw -- the Jackalope was massive, huge; maybe 4 to 4 1/2 lbs. if my guess was right -- began thumping the ground, clawing at the dirt; steam bellowed out of it's nostrils partially obscuring those red, un-blinking eyes(yes, the eyes of the Jackalope did not blink and they were red. Didn't I state that already?). Horrible sight it was, except for it's smile, -- THE THING SMILED AT ME, I TELL YA' -- a smile that gave away the beast's true intent:

You see, the Jackalope -- THAT'S RIGHT! I SAID JACKALOPE! -- hunt/kill/maim/destroy in packs(I think I mentioned that they run in packs, right? Uh, before? Right?). And this pack was a pack of three: Mister 'Un-Blinking Red Eyes', and the two speed hoppers careening from the sides; a predator's sprint, their speed seemed unmatched in the wild kingdom(Okay. Maybe not that fast. I mean, how fast can something that 'hops' be, really?)Anyway, they were scary, vicious, hungry and determined, blah, blah. But easily distracted:

You see, it was not me that they wanted, but the can of chew I had in my hand -- I knew this then as I know it now, because I watch YouTube. A delicacy of the Damned, it was all they wanted, needed and the Jackalope were ever prepared to do what must be done to obtain the can of treasure that I possessed. Whatever, long story short; I threw the can in a gofer hole and laughed as the scrabbled, dodge, leaped, dove and then, tried to burrow their way to that one thing in all the world that mattered most to them(Yeah, yeah. Chewing is bad for your health, but it did save my life once. Once.). Note: Jackalope can't burrow. It's the antlers, get it?

Legend says to this day, those evil, evil, dastardly Jackalopes -- YES! JACKALOPES -- are still there, frantically digging for that half-can of chew.Thanks, OP. Thanks for bringing back that terrible memory.

I don't see the similarities beyond they both take some inspiration from goats. Chevron is literally goat meat, so they just made the springer skin in the likeness of a goat. Baphomet also has the likeness of a goat. Ergo, the skin and Baphomet are similar. But the root of their inspirations is still, you guessed it, a goat.