God Of Pan Research Paper

Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs (Pan(god)). He is half human and half goat. He walks on his two hooves and large horns reach to the sky off his head. He has two arms of skin and two legs of fur. Pan is a God that everyone feared. His hideous face and screeching roar scared everyone away, but the sweet sound of his horn kept people curious. Pan was different from other gods. Although he was feared by many, Pan was an important character in this period of time. ABOUT PAN
Pan’s parents are unknown. His father could have been Zeus, Dionysus, Hermes, or Apollo. His mother may have been a nymph named Dryope, Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, or Aphrodite (Pan). He was worshiped in outside settings like caves. People believed that …show more content…
Pan’s mother was scared of her child, for he looked like a goat, but she still loved him. To protect him, his parents wrapped him in the pelt of a hare and named him Pan. Pan roamed around the mountains for the next few years. One day he fell in love with a beautiful nymph named Syrinx. He tried to seduce her, but she was scared of his hideous face and ran the other way. Pan chased her over the hills and down the valleys and to the end of a large river. Syrinx was so terrified that she changed herself into a reed (a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family that grows in water or on marshy ground). The wind started to blow through her leaves, and Pan heard her sweet voice. Pan then decided to make her into a musical instrument adding wax. Pan played his reed instrument all day and night. Everyone that wandered through the Arcadian woods would hear the beautiful music known as Pan’s Pipes. No one ever saw Pan, but would hear his hooves click in the distance. Pan would watch over the creatures of the forest until he had passed (THE PIPES OF