Awesome Goats

[etyrell91]

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<ol>Hausziege_04.jpg</ol><ol>goat4.jpg</ol><ol>Goat.jpg</ol><ol>682px-Orion_3008-147100.jpg</ol><ol>325870.jpg</ol>So everybody here loves goats, right? Right. But it's even better when you look past all the icons and symbolism and get into WHY they are what they are in xtianity. Goats are freaking awesome. If you're in the middle ages and you've got a goat, you'll have great milk, great meat, and great cheese, and they all go together really well too. They can live anywhere, eat anything, and are great company (if challenging to manage) because they are so independent, exactly the same with cats. If you're a goatherd in a bad point in human history, you can wave good-bye to the world and never look back. Needless to say, the Jew financiers and Catholic overlords did not approve in the slightest. "Sheep" is all you really need to say about their livestock preferences.

 

[fibrilink]

That's interesting. So goats were the more popular herd of choice at one time?

 

[etyrell91]

Not necessarily more popular. Sheep were more dominant in Israel (of course), and in Egypt, India, and West Africa, the most common animals were cattle (as made iconic in their spiritual traditions). Goats were specifically for the loners, the "woods witches," the independent souls that the "1%" of the day utterly despised. It gives you a whole new perspective on "Goat of a Thousand Young" and "Goat's Head Pentagram". I think if we made these symbols more "noble" looking (see first picture) and less obviously "threatening," we could really make a PR coup.