Baptes
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The Baptes (Greek βάπτης[1]) were priests of the Greek goddess Cottytus. The word comes from the Greek verb βάπτω (baptō), meaning "to dip in water".[2] The Baptes practised obscene ceremonies at night; they included orgies so hedonistic that even Cottytus herself was disgusted.[3]
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- ^ βάπτης, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ βάπτω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ Cobham Brewer, Ebenezer (1894). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Revised and Updated Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 73. http://www.archive.org/details/brewersdictionar000544mbp.
This article incorporates text from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer (1894), a publication now in the public domain.
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