With great esoteric significance, Leviticus 17. 7 reads: "They ought
not to sacrifice any more to the se'irim (satyrs, goat-demons), with
which they have committed fornication".
To the ancients, satyrs were demons of goatlike or apelike form
dwelling in ruins (Isaiah 13.21), symbols of immorality. To the
ancients a demon was an ape (or similar being). Such a relationship is
explicitly evident in the works of a number of authors, including
Horace, Seneca, Pliny, Ovid, and Virgil. A common idea in these works
is the depiction of Charon, the grim ferryman of Hades, not only as
black-skinned, but as an Ethiopian (with snub nose and thick lips)
(Hor. Odes II 13.21, Sen. Herc. Oet 1704-5, Pliny HN II 17, Ovid Met.
IV 436-8, Virgil Aen. VI 128).
Thus, it is evident the inhabitants of Palestine committed bastardizing
fornication with these ape-people, and God had to forbid this illicit
intercourse strongly.
Similarly, I. Cor. 10.20: "Ye can not drink from the cup of the Lord
and that of the demons at the same time" is interpreted as Sodomy.