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So what I‘m trying to get to is the definition of ‗Pan-Hellenic‘ – Pan-Hellenic arguably goes without
saying the easiest explanation is Pan = All, Hellenic = Greek, thus = ‗All things Greek‘.
However like all things Masonic, fraternal and other secret societies in general, - secrecy, symbolism,
handshakes, hand signs, play on words, definitions and meanings take on a completely new meaning and
gesture to the initiated.
At first you might not see what I mean, but when you look deeper into it, and begin to understand the
‗horned‘ and other hand signals regularly used by members of such clubs, groups and fraternities etc., then
hopefully you might begin to understand. As here‘s my definition of ‗Pan-Hellenic‘ = Pan in Greek
religion and mythology, is the god of shepherds and flocks, hunting and rustic piped music, as well as the
companion of the nymphs. His name originates within the Greek language, from the word ‗Paein‘,
meaning ‗to pasture‘. He has the hindquarters, which is the buttocks, so therefore arguably the genitals,
legs and ‗horns of a goat‘. The Horned Pan is in the same manner as a Faun-half human and half goat, or
Satyr; in Greek mythology. [2]
Satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus - Satyresses were a late invention of poets -
that roamed the woods and mountains. In mythology they too are often associated with pipe playing,
though they were just as happy at home to be seen balancing all kinds of objects on their manhood. You
can see various works of art from circa; 500BC painted onto everyday items such eating plates, which
portray activities such as balancing a ‗wine cup‘ on the end of a bald headed, bearded, horse-tailed Satyr‘s
penis.
This kind of portrayal is a prime example of the interpretation of the meaning of the word/s Pan-
Hellenic, as it too has a double meaning, a double entendre, a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase or
word is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while
the second meaning is less so: ‗Pan; simply meaning ‗all‘, as opposed to the horned; ‗Pan the Greek God
of Shepherds.
Other double meanings are often ‗risqué‘, inappropriate, or ironic, i.e., an example of sexual innuendo
and double-entendre occur in Chaucer‘s The Canterbury Tales, in which the ‗wife of Bath‘s tale‘ is full of
double entendres. The most famous of these may be the word ‗queynte‘ [from the same sounding word
quaint], to describe both domestic duties, and the female vagina. Queynte being a root of the modern
English word ‗cunt‘, - though; you bunch of queynte‘s, doesn‘t quite have the same humph of its modern
day alternative.
Another kind double meaning, is often found in seaside postcard humour: ―Oh, what a lovely pair of
Melons you have Madam‖, a man says to the young lady fruit seller wearing a rather low-cut top, - and in
the case of the Satyr just mentioned, he‘s not showing off his balancing techniques, but is indirectly and
subtly symbolising the homosexual act between the Satyr and Dionysus. Dionysos is the ancient Greek
god of wine, ‗wine cups, wineskin, grapes, theatre, and fertility‘.
Dionysos inspires ritual madness, joyful worship, and ecstasy, carnivals, celebration and a major figure
of Greek mythology, [3] and the reason you get such wild, raucous and sexually explicit behaviour being
portrayed in films such as Animal House etc., reflecting the sorts of fraternally accepted way of enjoying
one‘s self in the knowledge of not being exposed or ridiculed by some outsider. Pan, depending on his
intentions, was later known for his piped music, capable of arousing inspiration, sexuality, or ‗panic‘ -
inspired sudden fear in crowded places, panic [panikon deima] or pandemonium, the name Milton aptly
gave to the capital of hell in ‗Paradise Lost‘. Following the Titan‘s assault on Olympus, Pan claimed credit
for the victory of the gods because he had inspired chaos and fear into the attackers, resulting in the word
‗panic‘ to describe these kinds of emotions. [1]
[1]"Pantheon", Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, revised December 2008
[2]. "Pan (god) -.
[3] "Danae - Mythology Wiki." .
Zoophilia - Sex with a goat for Pledges!
I‘ve already covered some sick forms of initiations, and raised the issue of people who have sex with
animals. Well, police officers found more than they expected at a Western Kentucky University fraternity
house. Officers found a goat in the fraternity‘s basement during the party early of the 16th February 2006,
as according to the police report, the goat had no food or water and was found in a storage room where it
had no room to walk around. Police cited Trenton Jackson, 19, with second degree cruelty to animals.