There are many old stories and myths told that relate to the goat, and also goat symbology that has been passed down to us over thousands of years. In Ancient Crete, Greece, and Egypt, the goat received divine honors. The Egyptians rank the goat amongst the gods as the Goat of Mendes because as Herodotus had said, both a goat and Pan were called Mendes in the Egyptian language. In Crete and Greece, the he-goat was the God of All Things (GOAT), and in mythology is known as the God Pan. After the advent of Christianity, the GOAT or God Pan with his beard, cloven hoofs and horns, later became associated as the unofficial image of the devil. However to medieval occultists such as the Rosicrucians and early Freemasons, the he-goat symbolized the AS ABOVE SO BELOW elemental energies of the heavens above, and the fallen energies of the earth below. The sign of the AS ABOVE would be for the planet Jupiter, and the SO BELOW alchemical element of phosphorus derived therefrom. From henceforth, allegorical stories would then represent these secret teachings like those of the half goat and half man God called Pan, the hermaphroditic Goat of Mendes, and also the more recent sinister looking part goat, part man and woman hieroglyph known as Baphomet that was created by the French occultist Eliphas Levi in his book, Dogmas and Rituals of High Magic.