MY TOTEM ANIMAL Héctor Prieto 3rd D

MY TOTEM ANIMAL

Héctor Prieto Sánchez 3rd D

THE GOAT

I feel identified with the goat because it is my horoscope animal.

    The goat is a vertebrate animal, mammal and herbivore with horns, a kind of beard and fur all over the body.

Nowadays the goat is a farm animal that is used for milk, cheese and leather.

  According to mythology the goat was a highly venerated animal in Mendes in Egypt. It was forbidden to kill her, because they believed that Pan, great divinity of this city, had hidden under the figure of a goat because of this he was represented with the face of this animal.

While in Mendes this animal was revered and the sheep immolated, in Tebaida on the contrary they venerated the sheep and sacrificed the goats. Among the Greeks, they were consecrated to Jupiter, in memory of the nymph Amalthea who was the nurse of Jupiter and who is represented as the goat that nursed him in a cave in Crete. The Spartans immolated Juno. The Romans in their medals, represented Juno Sospila with a goat skin.

In Spain the goat its also very important for the  Spanish militar legion.