Why are goats often interpreted as a Masonic symbol

Why are goats often interpreted as a Masonic symbol? One of the most frequent ways of drawing a Freemason by religious people, in statues and illustrations, etc., is as a being that looks half human

The Order of the Pug

Order of the Pug

The Order of the Pug, or Mopsorden Around 1740, the German sculptor, Johann Joachim Kaendler, master model maker of the Meissen porcelain factory in Germany, was commissioned to create a curious series of sculptures. They