Goat Archetypes

Although not named directly, one of the main significant signs of the goat god Pan and Azazel’s existence in the Bible comes alive when the Israelite’s become warned, “And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils [goatmen] after whom they gone a whoring” (Lev 17:7). The twelfth century Jewish author and historian, Moses Maimonides, gives light to this passage by informing people that the Zabian idolater’s worshipped demons under the figure of goats. Furthermore, the Lashairim, rendered devils, exist on monuments in Egypt as the SERAU. The Seirim multiplied into other nations that followed this belief as it continued duplicating itself and became known by similar names such as sair, satyrs, seir, of goat beings, etc., within early Semitic areas. Along with Herodotus, various eyewitnesses’ reported of their travels in the country of Egypt; such as historical scholars like Strabo, Pindar, and Plutarch that experienced displays of public intercourse of women with goats said to represent the god Pan. To this end, for the Egyptians, this ‘reverence’ became part of their religion as they paid divine honors to real goats; similarly, this occurs

written in the record tablets of the goddess Isis. This custom to worship and perform rituals with goat creatures became instigated within the Hebrew people by the Egyptians. Thus, this sacrilegious practice explains the scripture,

“And if a man lies with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Lev 20:15-16).

Herodotus also said the Jews sustained this Mendisian goat worship after they had left Egypt as the Bible states. Simultaneously, among the Canaan tribes, the goat had developed a sacred character through Azazel represented as an on-going pagan divinity. By all accounts, Azazel’s mutation of devil/demonic creatures instigated the realm or “legions” of evil spirits on the earth and perpetrated the presence of lust that people became inflicted with through the ages. As a result, due to these idolatrous offenses with goat-devil creatures, this abomination becomes addressed with a vengeance toward goats.
Thus, ingeniously God orders the Jewish leaders to create rituals for the people to perform every year (Lev 16:5-34) called the scapegoat (Lev 16:8) and also known as ‘a day of atonement,’ (Lev 23:27). Apparently the point of killing (sacrificing) goats elevates the people’s consciousness, to eliminate these beastly sexual acts. As James Hastings Bible dictionary states, “Azazel must have been such an evil spirit, sufficiently distinguished from the rest, in popular imagination, to receive a special name.” The ritual killing of goats exists as a means to account for Azazel’s sexual sins towards humanity (Yoma, VI, 4, Rashi and Yoma, 39a) and to cover the sexual sins of the people concerning what they were doing with goat devils in the wilderness.
The event began by selecting two domestic goats; consequently, one became castrated as a ritualistic killing, symbolizing the sexual killing of their enemy the goat god. Due to the embarrassment of the people fornicating with these goat beings, Jewish writers started substituting the reference of goat creatures, sair, satyrs, seirims, seir, and goat devils, etc.; with one name, grouping the creatures’ altogether as just “demons.” Scriptures like Isaiah 13:21, states how the wild beast, doleful creatures and satyrs (seirim) dance in the desert; although, the Septuagint (translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Greek) renders the word ‘demons’ as a substitute for satyrs. In due course, this intentional obscurity of goat creatures lost the long ago true meaning of ‘real’ goat devils. As author’s categorized them as mere ‘demons,’ this inevitably created an obvious suppression.
Moreover, it would be logical that due to the shame of this repulsive behavior, the Biblical authors limited their writings concerning this connection. The text is full of sexual attacks against whoring after ‘other gods;’ therefore, with this in mind, the likely scenario of whoring after goat creatures manifested itself stronger than implied. During the time of King David, God commanded him to, “Make a covenant (with the Israelites) of peace and cause the ‘evil beasts’ (satyr - devils?) to cease out of the land that they may dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods” (Ezek 34:25).
Decisively, the widespread manifestation of goatmen must have been massive for they even had their own mountain (Mount Seir) that became known as the goat country.

Specifically, the Seirim goats identified as satyrs in the land of Seir, and also Edom, (Edom persisted as a Semitic inhabited historical region of the Southern Levant located south of Judea and the Dead Sea). Accordingly, in Strong’s Concordance of the Bible, the meaning of the word ‘seir’ occurs as he-goat, devil, hairy, or satyr and persists 39 times in the Old Testament. Mount Seir exists as a reference in the prophetic books as a term for Edom, as in Isaiah 21:11, Ezekiel 25:8, 35:10. Unequivocally, the Lord remained against Mount Seir (Ezek 35:1-15); accordingly, these goat creatures were the gods of Seir talked about in the following

scripture.

Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the ‘children of Seir,’ and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them (II Chron 25:14).

In the same way, this evil practice of goat/devil worship (fornicating) continues for the Israelites, for even after “five hundred years,” (beyond the threats in Leviticus concerning lying with beasts) one of the kings of the Israelites named Jeroboam appoints priests to worship and reverence goat devils. Inescapably, the Israelites yearly ritual killing of the ‘scapegoats’ demonstrates how rooted these overshadowing sexual problems were with the people, and the physical and spiritual warfare it took to try and destroy its presence. Judging from the Bible’s caution against the worship of goat devils and the vast amount of goat sacrifices the Israelites made; undeniably, the destruction of Satan’s presence among the people remained persistent, as they tried earnestly to stamp out satanic-goat-worship.
Nevertheless, even though among the Israelite people, goat creatures remained thoroughly evil; notwithstanding, in the general populace, the goat creature’s popularity strengthened in various societies. Countless people have no idea of the reality of why Satan occurs associated with a goat; yet, the Hebrew reference, such as in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the King James Version of the Hebrew Bible, defines the word Devil as a goat or satyr; definition used in the Old Testament verse Lev 17:7. This classification appears being based on facts; and in truth, the authenticity of these goat creatures becomes alarmingly significant; especially when viewing these beings intentionally obscure, yet extensive history.
(In Part III, I go into more in-depth detail concerning the widespread ideology of goat worship.)