The Baptes were priests of the Greek goddessCottytus. The word comes from the Greek verb meaning "to wash". The Baptes practised obscene ceremonies at night; they included orgies so hedonistic that even Cottytus herself was disgusted. Ę Greek mythology consists of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... In Greek mythology, Cottytus or Cotys was a goddess, originally worshipped Thrace and later worshipped heavily in Athens. ... Greek (, IPA — Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of 3,500 years. ...
Reeves says (Notes on Justin Martyr): "Thus were men initiated into the mysteries of Eleusis, and he who initiated them was called "Hydranus, the Waterer'" Tertullian says that thus men were initiated into the mysteries of Isis and Mithra; and Apuleius describes purification by water as part of the ceremonial of the Isiac initiation.
Those initiated into the mysteries of the Goddess Cotytto were called Baptes, from the ceremony of Baptism, which was part of the initiation; and Eupoles, rival of Aristophanes, wrote a comedy called The Baptes, ridiculing them.
The Egyptian sign Portal says, is the abridgment of the scene which represents the Egyptian baptism, or the pouring of the celestial dew on the head of the neophyte.
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