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"Beloved and all ye other who haunt this
Give me in the inward soul,
And may the outward and inward be at one."
-Socrates
The earliest cults of Pan in Arcadia. He was
with goat's horns and legs, long ears, a beard and hair-covered body.
to father was and mother -
Penelope (though it was also said that his mother was the fire goddess
Maia). Hermes was famous for fancy wood with whom
had numerous offspring. Pan was one of his children. His half-human half­
goat appearance was explained by the belief that Hermes seduced
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were gods of fields and forests, protectors of flocks
has it that Hermes took his homed son to
but Pan was only when surrounded by wild nature. For
this reason he abandoned Olympus and returned to earth to become the
of mountains all living nature.
He was identified with many other nature deities. them was
the Roman god of fields and woods, in a human
form but dressed in skin. Another identified with Pan was the
Phrygian god and fruit
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