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	Baptes
		The Baptes were priests of the Greek goddess Cottytus.
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Baptes.html (37 words)

	Masonic Child Baptism
		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.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /masonicchildbaptism.html (1404 words)

	Cotys@Everything2.com
		She may have been a manifestation of Proserpine or Ceres.
		Her servants were called the baptai or baptes (from the Greek verb 'to wash' but meaning 'baptized ones').
		They would celebrate secret licentious festivals involving baptism in honor of the goddess.
	singlish@everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1370724& (330 words)

	Amazon.com: Baptes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Get it by Tuesday, Jun 5, if you order in the next 65 hours and 24 minutes.
		vegetable should first be dipped (bapte) in boiling water and then...
		usque ad festum sci iohis bapte anno dni m(o).cc(o).lxxvi(o).
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Baptes&index=blended&page=1 (923 words)

	JS Brown asf
		Alexander Stephens Was Maried in Roan County State of North Carlina; North, America, To Poly or (Mary) Daly Who was Born in the a fore Said county and, State,
		They atatched themselves to the Baptes Church and lived and dide members of the Same They Raised a Famley of 11 childrn Named as folows, William, then, Hanner, and Marthey, then Elizabeth who was my Mother, then John the Alexander, then Mary or (Poly) then Davied, then Daniel, Ruhsimah, Susan,
		The Brothers of my Grand Father Alaxander Stephens was John, William; James, and Richard his Sisters was Named Mary or (Poly) Sarah then Janey;] Mary Maried Isaack, Coton, they had a Son that was Sires and a dauter that was caled Elizabeth.
	www.brownhistory.org /JS%20Brown%20asf.htm (1368 words)

	Tyrrell County Marriage Licenses
		Bowser, being duly sworn, says: That the parties applying for the License are of lawful age, and that so far as he is informed and believes, there is no lawful cause or impediment forbidding said marriage.
		Bowser, a Baptes Minster united in Matrimony W.
		Bowser and Rhoda Liverman the parties licensed above, on the 12 th day of April, 19 14, at W.
	patriot.net /~cpbarnes/TLB070.HTM (1324 words)

	queryG
		I'm interested in finding Nancy Godfrey wife of Green Lee Godfrey who was living in Dudley Missouri as of November 1929.
		Great-grandparents Francis Asbury Godwin and Lottie or Lote Bear married on October 18, 1878 "by Baptes precher.
		No Licens then." according to my ggf's Civil War pension file.
	www.rootsweb.com /~moscgs/query/qur-g.htm (335 words)

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