Pan

Pan is the god of the Wild who enjoys to the extreme.

Blessings

Pan is a carefree soul, prancing through the high mountains, tending sheep, playing his pipes, singing, chasing after nymphs, and dancing. His only creed is freedom. He shows his followers how to live a similar life, how to let go and live for a change.

God Of

  • Wilderness

Primary Cult Centers

  • Arcadia
  • Marathon

Epithets

  • Megas – Great

Symbols

Syrinx

Animals

Goat, sheep, ram

Sacrifices

Milk, honey, must, goats, Indian hemp, orchis root, musk, civet, thistle

Festivals

  • No Festival (-) .

Ways to honor

Dance, sing, spend time in the wild. Drink, eat, have sex. Above all else, enjoy yourself.

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Ancient Hymns and Texts

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Primary Sources

  • Apollodorus’ Epitome 7.38
  • Apollodorus’ Library 1.4.1
  • Herodotus’ The Histories 2.145, 4.105, 6.105-106
  • Hesiod’s Theogony
  • Homeric Hymn to Pan 19
  • Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1.689-712, 11.146-179, 14.635-641
  • Pausanias’ Description of Greece 1.28.4, 8.36.8, 8.42.2-3, 8.54.6-7, 10.23.7
  • Pindar’s Fragments 95
  • Plato’s Phaedrus
  • Plutarch’s On the Decline of Oracles
  • Theocritus’ Idylls 1.16
  • Virgil’s Georgics 3.391-393

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Modern Books

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