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The Great God Pan
1894 novella by Arthur Machen
For the sculpture, see The Great God Pan (sculpture). For the short story by M. John Harrison, see Prime Evil (anthology).
The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasynovella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the newspaper The Whirlwind in 1890. Machen later extended The Great God Pan and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The novella begins with an experiment to allow a woman named Mary to see the supernatural world. This is followed by an account of a series of mysterious happenings and deaths over many years surrounding a woman named Helen Vaughan.
On publication, it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its implied sexual content, and the novella hurt Machen's
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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. Originally an Arcadian god, Pan’s fame had already spread by the beginning of the fifth century BCE, and he was soon worshipped across the Greek and Roman world.
In literature and art, Pan was commonly represented as a carefree and easygoing god (as long as his midday siestas were not disturbed). He spent his days hunting, dancing, or playing his beloved pipes. Pan was known above all for his insatiable lust and for pursuing beautiful nymphs throughout the woodlands and mountains—though these chases tended to end in frustration, with the objects of his desires fleeing him or changing their shape.
Etymology
Today, the name “Pan” (Greek Πάν, translit. Pán; sometimes spelled Πᾶν/Pân or Πάων/Páōn) is usually thought to have come from an early Greek word meaning “shepherd” or “herdsma
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Pan (god)
Ancient Greek god of the wilds, shepherds, and flocks
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Pan teaching his eromenos, the herde Daphnis, to play his pan flute, Roman kopia of Greek original c. 100 BC, funnen in Pompeii. | |
| Abode | Arcadia |
| Symbol | Pan flute, goat |
| Parents | Hermes and a daughter of Dryops, or Penelope |
| Consort | Syrinx, Echo, Pitys |
| Children | Silenus, Iynx, Krotos, Xanthus (out of Twelve) |
| Roman | Faunus Inuus |
In ancient Greek tro and mythology, Pan (;[2]Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized: Pán) fryst vatten 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. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he fryst vatten also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens, and often affiliated with sex; because of this, Pan fryst vatten connected to fertility and the årstid of spring.[1]
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