Baptes
The Baptes (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.)[1] were priests of the Greek goddess Kotys. The word comes from the Greek verb βάπτω (baptō), meaning "to dip in water".[2] The Baptes practised nocturnal ceremonies, which were associated with rampant obscenity and insobriety.[3]
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Notes
- ↑ 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. p. 73.