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According to Norse mythology, the god of thunder, Thor, has a chariot that is pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. At night when he sets up camp, Thor eats the meat of the goats, but take care that all bones remain whole. Then he wraps the remains up, and in the morning, the goats always come back to life to pull the chariot. When a farmer’s son who is invited to share the meal breaks one of the goats’ leg bones to suck the marrow, the animal’s leg remains broken in the morning, and the boy is forced to serve Thor as a servant to compensate for the damage.

Possibly related, the Yule Goat is one of the oldest Scandinavian and Northern European Yule and Christmas symbols and traditions. Yule Goat originally denoted the goat that was slaughtered around Yule, but it may also indicate a goat figure made out of straw. It is also used about the custom of going door-to-door singing carols and getting food and drinks in return, often fruit, cakes and sweets. “Going Yule Goat” is similar to the British custom wassailing, both with heathen roots. The Gävle Goat is a giant version of the Yule Goat, erected every year in the Swedish city of Gävle.

The goat is one of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Each animal is associated with certain personality traits; those born in a year of the goat are predicted to be shy, introverted, creative, and perfectionist. See Sheep (zodiac).

Several mythological hybrid creatures are believed to consist of parts of the goat, including the Chimera . The Capricorn sign in the Western zodiac is usually depicted as a goat with a fish’s tail. Fauns and satyrs are mythological creatures that are part goat and part human. The mineral bromine is named from the Greek word “brόmos,” which means “stench of he-goats.”

Goats are mentioned many times in the Bible. A goat is considered a “clean” animal by Jewish dietary laws and was slaughtered for an honored guest. It was also acceptable for some kinds of sacrifices. Goat-hair curtains were used in the tent that contained the tabernacle (Exodus 25:4). On Yom Kippur, the festival of the Day of Atonement, two goats were chosen and lots were drawn for them. One was sacrificed and the other allowed to escape into the wilderness, symbolically carrying with it the sins of the community. From this comes the word “scapegoat”. A leader or king was sometimes compared to a male goat leading the flock. In the New Testament, Jesus told a parable of The Sheep and the Goats. (Gospel of Matthew 25)

Christianity has associated Satan with imagery of goats (see Pan (mythology)). A common superstition in the Middle Ages was that goats whispered lewd sentences in the ears of the saints. The origin of this belief was probably the behavior of the buck in rut, the very epitome of lust. The common medieval depiction of the Devil was that of a goat-like face with horns and small beard (a goatee). The Black Mass, a probably-mythological “Satanic mass,” was said to involve a black goat[who?], the form in which Satan supposedly manifested himself for worship.

The goat has had a lingering connection with Satanism and pagan religions, even into modern times. The pentagram, a symbol used in Satanism, is said to be shaped like a goat’s head. The “Baphomet of Mendes” refers to a satanic goat-like figure from 19th century occultism.

Aug. 10 — A Kenyan man over the weekend reiterated his offer of a 20-cow and 40-goat dowry to woo Chelsea Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s daughter, nine years after he wrote to then-president Bill Clinton with the proposal.

Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, 39, a former city councilor in Nakuru, a city in southern Kenya, told the East African Standard newspaper that he wrote to Bill Clinton asking for Chelsea’s hand in 2000, when the Clintons visited Kenya, and he hadn’t received a response.

Hillary Clinton’s visit to the capital Nairobi last week was seen as another opportunity by Chepkurgor to express his love.

Clinton was asked about the proposal by a CNN reporter at a Nairobi Town Hall session Thursday. “If you think about the current global economic climate, in which asset value has gone down…it’s not a bad offer,” the reporter said.

Though the audience laughed, Clinton’s response was humorless,”She (Chelsea) is very independent, so I will convey this very kind offer.”

Chepkurgor told the East African Standard that he was elated by the response, “I express joy and happiness that, after a long time, the Clinton family has responded,” adding that he had been waiting for more than eight years for a response.

According to CNN, since polygamy is legal in Kenya, Chelsea could only be Chepkurgor’s second wife if she accepts, because he already married in 2006.

(Source: GlobalTimes.cn)

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