Goats
Goats Goats Goats
I like Goats.
What type of sound do goats make? Is it like a cross between a sheep and a cow? Can a goat really eat a tin can? Why is the goat the symbol of satan? What kind of cheese is goat cheese? How many goats are there on the cover of The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"?
I like Goats.
posted by Garden Club @ 11:54 PM
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At 3:33 PM ,
Anonymous said...
The association of the goat with Satan probably originated in the custom of the scapegoat. In Israel the sins of the tribes were ceremonially loaded onto the head of a goat. This "scapegoat" represented the god Azazel, 'Messenger of the Lord', who took these sins away each Day of Atonement. The Horned God Azazel was actually a divine redeemer who took human sins upon himself and atoned for them by his exile and/or death, and you can read this for yourself in Leviticus 16:20 in the Bible: "An when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat; and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of the man who is in readiness. The goat shall bear all their iniquities upon him into a solitary land; and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness."
It was probably traditions like this that made early Christians associate the goat with Satan, the persononification of evil. And since many pagan religions have nature deities with horns and stuff, these too were associated by early Christians with the Devil, and this also may have played a part in the later association of goats with the Devil. It is true that the goat is associated with the Devil by many modern Christians, but if you look in the Bible you will see that he is described as a serpent.
oh, and 7.
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