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Pan Blessing: 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. Epithets: Megas (Great) Symbols: syrinx Animal(s): goat, sheep, ram Sacrifices: milk, honey, must, goats, Indian hemp, orchis root, musk, civet, thistle Primary Cult Center(s): Arcadia, Marathon Festivals: none Ways to honor: Dance, sing, spend time in the wild. Drink, eat, have sex. Above all else, enjoy yourself. For more information: 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