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Goat

Beings · Nature

Goat as an animal people have named and used. Sacrifice, Fertility, Resurrection — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Vedic tradition

  • Goat is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the goat among domestic animals with milk, fat, and other products entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named goat in that encyclopedia, not the Rigveda goat already walked and not a satyr dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Goat is historically related to Altar.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, beside the altar of burnt offerings the high priest kills the goat chosen by lot for the sacrifice — the goat is slain at that altar.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Goat is historically related to Cup.

    In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, one altar holds a lamb and a goat while the other holds the cup and crossed loaves - the goat scene sits beside that cup.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Quatrefoil is associated with Goat.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, on one altar a lamb and a goat are lying, framed in the quatrefoil panel opposite the cup and crossed loaves — the goat shares that quatrefoil altar pair with the lamb.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Skin is associated with Goat.

    In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, a bellows flap is a thin board covered with goat skin, the hairy part turned toward the ground, fixed with small iron nails — the skin is that goat covering.

    from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912

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  • Sheep is historically related to Goat.

    In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the Good Shepherd sheep is sometimes replaced by the goat in the same emblem type - sheep and goat share that shepherd figure.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Bull is historically related to Goat.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, permitted Israelite sacrifices include of the beeve kind a cow, bull, or calf, and of the goat kind a he-goat, she-goat, or kid.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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Norse tradition

  • Goat appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Heiðrún among Valhalla’s goats and Thor’s goats among his gear. A named goat in that prose, not Rigveda goat-gift speech alone and not a scapegoat dump.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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  • Goat is sacred to Thor.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Thor’s chariot among goats that pull him and can be slain and revived for food. A named goat dedicated to that god’s travel, not goat→appears_in→norse as the kind walk alone and not Heiðrún as Valhalla’s goat.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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Hellenic religion

  • Goat appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes goats among sacrificial animals and rustic sanctuary speech. A named goat in that periegesis, not ram as another ovicaprid and not a satyr dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Egyptian religion

  • Goat appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos treats the Mendes goat among sacred animals. A named goat in that traveler’s speech, not ram as the Theban keep-apart and not Pliny/Norse goat walks alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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  • Pan is historically related to Goat.

    Herodotus’s Mendes logos ties the sacred goat of Mendes to Greek Pan — an interpretatio link between the Greek god and the Mendes animal cult, not a claim that Pan is a goat. A named historically_related_to meeting beside goat-egyptian-herodotus already walked as fauna attestation.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Buddhist traditions

  • Goat appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names the goat-cart among the three burning-house vehicles. A named goat in that parable, not a sacrifice checklist and not a zodiac Capricorn dump.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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European folklore

  • Mohair is historically related to Goat.

    Beck’s Dictionary seats mohair as the long lustrous hair of the Angora goat among drapery dress and upholstery goods. A named mohair in that drapery trade, not cashmere as Kashmir undercoat and not angora as rabbit wool alone.

    from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882

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