Pan

Diane	Posted Jan 14, 2010 12:38 PM Link to this discussion
DianeVera Group Organizer New York, NY Post #: 343	Pan is one of our five Rising gods of the modern West. This thread is intended as a place to post sources of information about Pan. If you're aware of any good books about Pan, please tell us about them here. If you're aware of any good websites about Pan, please post the links here. Also, if you have a favorite prayer or chant to Pan, or a favorite poem about Pan, please call our attention to it here (without violating copyright, please). Please use this thread to refer us to any sources of info (online or offline) you find interesting. The Theoi Project is an excellent source of info on how the Greek gods were perceived in ancient Greece, with lots of quotes from the original Greek sources. The site includes a page on Pan and a page on how Pan was worshiped. Here are some other pages about Pan, as perceived both in ancient Greece and in the modern world: The Greek God Pan in Myth and Art on the Mythography site Wikipedia article on Pan Greek God Pan and Fast Facts on: Pan on About.com Greek God Pan on HubPages The Great God Pan on Shrine of the Horned Gods Unfortunately, that last-named site contains some of the usual nonsense about Satan, Satanism, and the European witchhunts that is all too popular among the less well-educated neo-Pagans. I'll post a brief response later, in a separate thread. (This current thread should be confined to posting info about Pan.) Edited by Diane on Jan 14, 2010 1:28 PM
A former member	Posted Jan 18, 2010 3:40 PM Link to this reply
Post #: 10	I believe DeBussy's Afternoon of a Faun would be good music for this group I will post a link soon
Diane	Posted Jan 26, 2010 3:41 PM Link to this reply
DianeVera Group Organizer New York, NY Post #: 367	Recently, Earl Buys emailed me a link to the poen The Afternoon of a Faun by Stephane Mallarme, about Pan a.k.a. Faunus. Debussy's "tone poem" was based on the poem by Stephane Mallarme.
Diane	Posted Jan 27, 2010 3:39 PM Link to this reply
DianeVera Group Organizer New York, NY Post #: 368	On Witchvox, I just now ran into the article The Burning of Margaret Murray by Fire Lyte, January 24th, 2010, remarking on how a lot of Margarat Murray's ideas are still a near-orthodoxy among Wicca-based Pagans, even though they've been discredited by historians. As previously noted also in the thread on Ishtar: The Internet Sacred Texts Archives has copies of quite a few of the late-1800's and early 1900's writings that inspired the modern Wiccan mythos, in the site's section on Wicca and Neo-Paganism. Many of these are scholarly writings -- which, however, reflect very outdated scholarship. (For an update on issues pertaining to the witchhunts, see Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch Hunt by Jenny Gibbons.) Edited by Diane on Jan 27, 2010 3:44 PM
Diane	Posted Feb 5, 2010 10:33 PM Link to this reply
DianeVera Group Organizer New York, NY Post #: 387	Late 20th-century demonization of the god Pan, in particular, by some fundy Christians: LL Cool J, satanist: Studies in Crap presents Dancing With Demons by Alan Scherstuhl, Thu., Feb. 4 2010, is a review of the book Dancing With Demons: The Music's Real Master by Jeff Godwin, a denunciation of rock music published by the infamous fundy Christian publisher Chick Publications, back in 1988. This book has a picture of the god Pan on the cover and alleges that some rock musicians worship Pan. Edited by Diane on Feb 5, 2010 10:39 PM
Alan	Posted Mar 3, 2010 12:50 AM Link to this reply
user 11548760 San Jose, CA Post #: 1	Here is Socrates' prayer to Pan at the end of Plato's Phaedrus (Jowett translation): "Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be wealthy, and may I have such quantity of gold as a temperate man and he only can bear and carry. -- Anything more? The prayer, I think, is enough for me." Here is Thoreau, from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: "In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine." A look at representations of the Greek god Pan in popular culture and film John Fletcher's Hymn to Pan Shelley's Hymn of Pan Crowley's Hymn to Pan
Diane	Posted Mar 3, 2010 8:27 AM Link to this reply
DianeVera Group Organizer New York, NY Post #: 427	Thanks very much for the info and links. Edited by Diane on Mar 3, 2010 8:27 AM
Corbeau de Marais	Posted Jun 16, 2010 9:56 PM Link to this reply
Corbeau_deMarais Melbourne, AU Post #: 1	Crowley's "Hymn To Pan" I've always considered to be a heartfelt and enlightened redaction of the Pan mythic persona, in what I believe to be a genuine devotional attitude. (He made sure it was recited at his funeral). [Edited by Diane Vera to remove possible copyright violation. Please see reply below.] Edited by Diane on Jun 17, 2010 11:37 AM
Diane	Posted Jun 17, 2010 11:36 AM Link to this reply
DianeVera Group Organizer New York, NY Post #: 484	Thanks for drawing our attention to Crowley's "Hymn to Pan." However, in the future, to avoid copyright violations, please post links, rather than copies, of anything that either isn't or might not yet be in the public domain. (If you don't know how to post links, then just copy and paste the URL, and I'll edit your post to prettify the link.) I'm not sure of the legal status of Crowley's writings, but I know that the OTO does claim copyright for pretty near all of them. Here's a copy of Crowley's "Hymn to Pan," with the appropriate copyright notice, on the Hermetic Library site. Anyhow, welcome to the Church of Azazel Meetup group. Edited by Diane on Jun 17, 2010 12:03 PM
Gawaine C. Ross	Posted Aug 20, 2010 8:32 AM Link to this reply
GawaineR Boston, MA Post #: 4	Hymn to Pan Gawaine Caldwater Ross Before Morocco was Roman, you see, the music of Pan was African jazz. At the Wednesday night prayer meeting the percussion discussion of Mingus goes on, getting' all jumpy and sweaty inside. This is the time of the passionate stranger, of bullfights and trumpets, of magic and lust. You should see that goat high steppin' playin' his pipes for centaurs and satyrs while rivers of wine and buckets of beer splash the maenads snaking with joy. Seven black dancers leap on a cliff, five different rhythms make them alive: It's music that spears them, one at a time! One says “It's crazy,” one says “It's love,” three new rhythms awaken the dead! Fertility spirits moan and shout as flutes and oboes evoke ancestors. A soprano echoes a baritone's wail. The sky man wears a cloak of feathers, the earth woman wears a skirt of grass. A neighboring tribe joins the fray entering caves with torches aloft, wearing masks of stallions and mares. The god who grants all desires arrives riding a winged golden lion as twenty eight drummers climax at once. I can believe that joy is infectious, I can believe that music is Life. I'm going to jump and roar my approval she's going to ride a broad chested centaur the people will tussle a long hungry python when Pan calls us in the middle of the night.

Church of Azazel proto-congregation, New York City

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