Baptes

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]

See also

• List of Greek mythological figures

References

1. βάπτης, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
2. βάπτω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
3. Cobham Brewer, Ebenezer (1894). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Revised and Updated Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 73.

This article incorporates text from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer (1894), a publication now in the public domain.