Biography Pan

Pan (Pan) – Greek god, Arcadia origin. By Homer anthem, PA is the son of Hermes and daughter Driona. He was born with goat legs, a long beard and horns and immediately after the birth began to jump and laugh. Startled by the extraordinary appearance and character of a child whose mother left him, but the Hermes, wrapped him in a hare skin, and carried him to Olympus before the cheer all the gods, especially Dionysus appearance and liveliness of his son, the gods have called his GP, as he delivered to all (paV = all) with great joy. P. was a god-patron of herds (the word in connection with the Pan Paw – paste). Luxury valleys and groves of Arcadia – Kingdom of PA, where he sports a range of fun nymphs. Under his flute, or Searing arranged in merriment, dancing, frightening death. In the afternoon, exhausted from the study, P. falls asleep and sleeps with him the whole of nature under the scorching rays: this is the calm was considered sacred and no one shepherd dared to break it by playing the flute for fear of disturbing the sleep of the god-protector. When the mountain echoes the silence was broken, or screams, superstitions ascribed these sounds AP: hence the fear that a person experiences, hearing the sounds coming from somewhere in the silence, called. panic. This view is reflected in the tale of love and the nymph Echo AP. AP was also considered a god of the emerging light at the rising sun. This presentation is also a myth about his love for Selena, it's on to him so that gave her a part of their herds. Like God, filled with natural inspiration, he was a god – predictor; in Arcadia was his oracle, the priestess of which was Erato. Familiar with all the paths and roads of his country, he was considered a god-conductor, (enodioV, pompaioV), both Apollo and Hermes, and he showed the way on land and at sea, pacified the waves of the sea sounds of his flute. He focused on the mountains, caves, oaks and pines, as well as turtles. As God, who loved solitude and free nature, PA was the city god, and only by chance about his revered monuments in the cities. For example, in Athens was dedicated to his grotto on the Acropolis to commemorate the defeat of the Persians, which seemed brought GP (panic) terror during the battle. Later, as a result of orgiastic features of his character, it joined the cult and the cult of the Great Mother and Dionysus. In Lydia P. otozhestvlen was from Mars and was considered a teacher of Olympus. How lewd and provocative companion maenads, nymphs and hermaphrodites, he, like satyrs, was the personification of sensual love, so in the later literature and art he is depicted as a companion of Aphrodite and Eros rival. In addition to AP, the individual deity of nature, were still creatures of demonic nature, called PaneV; or Paniscoi – born sprites with goatee, harassing people in the mountains and forests, and also to send bad dreams. They lived among the flocks and the comrades were satyrs. Wed W. Gebhard, "Ueber den Pankult" (1872), "Gymn. Progr. V. Braunschweig"; P. Wetzel, "De Jove et Pane diis Arcadicis" (1873); F. Wieseier, "De Pane et Paniscis etc." (1875); Preller, "Griechische Mythologie" (1894, v. 1, p. 738-747).