Epitragia

It was customary to sacrifice white she-goats to Aphrodite Pandemos, one of her popular epithets meaning "Of all the People." Sometimes Aphrodite Pandemos was depicted riding a goat, and this epithet earned an epithet of its own, Epitragia. The goddess riding on a goat was also known as Aphrodite Epitragia, "from a she-goat". According to Plutarch, she acquired this epithet from an episode in the life of Theseus when, by the recommendation of Apollo, the hero sacrificed a goat to Aphrodite before departing for Crete in hopes that she would guide him on his voyage. As Theseus sacrificed the customary she-goat, the animal was suddenly transformed into a male goat!