The Goat association, or the purpose of it, is something I do not know a lot about. I am familiar with Eliphas Levi's image of the Baphomet, which is seen associated with Freemasonry, and related imagery of it is frequently seen alluded to in pop music these days, with GOAT mentioned in the Born this Way video as "Government Owned Alien Territory" referencing conspiracy theories of course, JayZ, Rihanna, video's etc.

Now, looking at the image obviously it doesn't have an immediate, positive association, rather it does look quite like what we'd assume "the devil" would look like, well it's one depiction of many in art. Personally, I'm not a fan of the image... I understand the unity of the polarities inherent within it as a symbol, but I do think it leans a little bit darker, animal (less enlightened if you will). I like things to certainly be much lighter in my own life, associating spirituality with lighter imagery. However, I do understand we live in a world of duality, and there is a great spectrum of positive and negative in this world, and that goes for choice of interpretation as well.

So I've been reading this book on Freemasonry and it mentions something that looks similar to the word GOAT, but it's actually GAOTU.

Great Architect of the Universe

In the Freemasonry the symbol is this:



The G can be said to represent, Geometry, Goat, God... depending on who you ask I suppose.

In association of God it would represent all deities of all religions, not one particular version or association.

Freemasons believe that the truth of God, can be seen in the architecture, or Geometric perfection of the universe, and that the order of the universe is the closest we have to seeing there is proof of God's existence.