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
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