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His name means “Ba (soul) Lord of Mendes” (Mendes was his main center of worship.) Some of the titles of Ba Neb Tetet were “Lord of the Sky” and “Life of the Sun.” He was a god of peace and level-headedness who helped to judge the souls of the dead. There is some evidence that Ba Neb Tetet incorporated the essence of the world in four spirits, corresponding to the four first rulers of the world; Ra, Shu, Geb, and Osiris. Ba Neb Tetet was pictured as a ram, or as a ram-headed man. At Mendes was kept a sacred ram, worshipped as the incarnation of the god. The hieroglyphic for ram, together with a whip, conferred royal status.

This god has been sadly perverted in sensational “occult” fiction, for Ba Neb Tetet is the benign original for a travesty called the “goat of Mendes” (Baphomet), who is supposed to be some sort of diabolic spirit (the fact that Ba Neb Tetet was a sheep, not a goat, was apparently overlooked).