According to Herodotus (II, 46),
the cult of Pan began in Egypt where
it was customary to worship goats.
The expression ‘goat-shaped demons’ used in the Bible is possibly an allusion to this form of pagan worship (Leviticus 17:7; 2 Chronicles 11:15).
According to some, this god’s half-man half-goat form and the Inferno, the work of the Italian poet Dante AR3 Alighieri, influenced the imagination
of artists of the Middle Ages and the conception
of a devil with horns and pointed tail.
Such a representation risks raising doubts
as to the existence of this spirit creature,
whom the Bible repeatedly presents as
an absolutely real person.
The Scriptures give no physical description
of the Devil, even if he is described as
a 'serpent' or depicted with the features of
a voracious 'dragon'. - Revelation 12:9.
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