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The culture of Ancient Greece involved a complex spiritual world of major and minor gods that oversaw human events and engaged in dramas of their own. One of these, called Pan, ruled over nature and pasturelands.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (/ pæn /; [2] Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized: Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. [3] He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr.
4 maj 2020 · The god of the countryside, shepherds, and mountainsides, Pan had dominion over a side of Greek life that was closer to nature than the great temples and marketplaces of the city. So where did Pan come from, and why do we remember him so well?
20 maj 2023 · Overview. Rustic Pan was the Greek god of shepherds, goatherds, and their animals and pastures. He himself was part-animal and was most often imagined with the horns, hind legs, and tail of a goat.
26 paź 2024 · Pan, in Greek mythology, a fertility deity, more or less bestial in form. He was associated by the Romans with Faunus. Originally an Arcadian deity, his name is a Doric contraction of paon (“pasturer”) but was commonly supposed in antiquity to be connected with pan (“all”).
Pan was the ancient Greek god of shepherds and hunters, and of the meadows and forests of the mountain wilds. His unseen presence aroused panic in those who traversed his realm. Pan idled in the rugged countryside of Arcadia, playing his panpipes and chasing Nymphs.
The great god of flocks and shepherds among the Greeks; his name is probably connected with the verb πάω (paō), Latin pasco (graze, forage), so that his name and character are perfectly in accordance with each other.
