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

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