Drama Queen of All Goats, and Other Related Myths!

Recently, a foreigner mocked the story of "save the goat" online. Here's what happened: the tourist took his child to play at a local ranch, and when he saw a goat stuck in the fence, he tried to help out.

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But despite their best efforts, it didn't work! Then they went to the 

management office, and the staff answered looking unalarmed: "Oh, that’s Brenda, she just doesn't want to come out. She just wants to be taken seriously."

Other online users also shared their experience. Then people began to realize that the so-called Brenda goat had been pretending to be stuck… But it wasn’t just Brenda! Apparently, many other goats have done the same.

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If you look carefully, you will see that their pupils are long.

Studies have shown that such lenses can help them to minimize visual blind areas, as well as have a clearer panoramic vision, so they can better see the predator and run away.

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Goats are often seen as the embodiment of the devil in western countries. Most demons have horns, goatees, and hooves:

The most famous devil - the incarnation of Satan - is the “goat-headed devil” named Baphomet.

In 1861, French author Alice Levi wrote in her book "The Creeds and Rituals of Higher Magic”, Baphomet is best known as “a humanoid goat with a pair of breasts, a five-pointed star on its forehead, a torch between its horns, wings, and a Hermes cane standing on its belly.”

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The first President of the United States, a statue of George Washington, is said to have posed as Baphomet.

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And the head of the Baphomet goat in the inverted pentagram, known as the Baphomet seal, is used as a symbol of Satan:

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It is said that the metal ceremony of rock 'n' roll music also imitates the horns of a goat.

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The metal salute is called corna, which means "horns" in Italian, and because the forefinger and pinkie are raised to represent the image of a goat, the gesture is appropriate for the rebellious mood of rock 'n' roll.

The gesture is also known as "devil's horns," "goat's horns," "rock 'n' roll horns," among others.

Even in sports, goats are often used to describe the sports elite because Greatest Of All Time = G.O.A.T.

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And as it turns out, goat myths were also a thing back in ancient China. 

As recorded in the book of mountains and seas: "The Hill of Kunlun", there were beasts in the shape of sheep and their four horns, called trippings, were cannibals.

It means that there is a monster that looks like a sheep on the Kunlun mountain, but it has four horns and it's called a tripper. 

The most terrible thing is that it eats people.

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Damascus goat

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The Damascus goat has lived in Syria and the Middle East for thousands of years. When Damascus goats are little, they kind of look like ordinary goats.

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