Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth.

I've been telling stories about how we know what we know,

and why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all.

But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions.

The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.

Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out.

Coming soon.

Listen to the last archive on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short forum series from Stuff to

Blow Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

It's almost impossible to have not seen the so-called Goat of Mendes, or Baffomet, or Baffomet,

whether on a t-shirt for a metal band, or in movies such as the 1968 Hammer Film The Devil

Rides Out. The most well-known image of this monstrous humanoid is the 1856 drawing in

Frinche-Coltist, Elefus Lievez's book Dogma and Rich War of High Magic. We see a creature with

the head and legs of a goat, the torso of a woman, the wings of a bird, and a lit torch emerging

between his horns. It bears a pentagram on its forehead, an additional symbols illustrate

its body and environment. As with many examples of divine imagery, the image of Baffomet is

highly symbolic, and has been incorporated into various occult traditions, subcultures,

and new religious movements. It is also highly suggestive of various traditions of hornet

gods and human history, such as Pan in Greek tradition. We don't have time to follow all of

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