Pan

    There is no one who hasn't heard of Pan, and everyone whould nkow him if they met him. A Greek ogd with the physique, not of a Greek god, but of a small man with a goatee beard and reed pipes, and hind-quarters, horns and with the reputation of having sexual habits of a goat.
     We know about Pan because his worshippers were civilized, and wrote everything down, and so we have entire books of Greek myths, and Pan pops up in them everywhere. We know nearly everything about him., from his parentage, birth, and childhood (the foster brother of Zeus himself), through numerous adventures right up to his (supposed) death. In fact so much Greek writtings survive that there are several versions of nearly everything about him.
     Pan is the offspring of either Hermes and Penelope, or Hermes and Dryope, daughter of King Dropys, whose flocks he tended.
     The other gods referred to him as the youngest of them, but he probably was the oldest, having been first worshipped in Arcadia, where he was certainly being worshipped as early as the 6th century B.C. It is said that he haunted the woodlands, hills, mountains, sleeping at noon and then dancing through the woods as he played the pipes. This fertile plateau lies in the South of modern Greece, and there lived the pastoral ancestors of the heroes who later built the Greek empire. Pan was born there, on Mount Lycaeum, and in the hearts of a shepherding people who depended a lot on goats, and so naturally needed a goat-god.
     Pan had many attributes as a god. He was the God of Goats, and sheep, and their shepherds. He was the God of Bee keeping. He was also the God of Music, playing upon the reed pipes he made from the transformed body of the nymph Syrinx (hence the pan pipes:) It was said that this music could inspire panic (which stems from his name) in any who heard it. SOmetimes he was a minor god of the sea. He was a God of Prophecy and was also famous for being randy (Greek woman who were especially sexually active were known as Pan girls). Above all he was the God of Nature; meadows, forests, beasts, and even human nature.
     Pan's symbol is the Phallus. It was invoked for fertility of flocks, or an abundant hunt. Every region in Greece had its own Pan, who was known by various names, and Pan eventually came to symbolize the Universal God. he is recognized in Paganism and contemporary Witchcraft and is an aspect of the Horned God