The Great God Pan
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@Alias55A said
"Specialized books on Pan alone are usually trying to sell a particular point of view that is different from understanding the god as the ancient Greeks knew Him."
Thanks for the tip. Ya I was looking for some instruction book lol. Recently I've chosen Pan as my personal Patron Diety, and I want to learn how to work with him. So this subject is a bit knew to me. How does one start working with a diety? would I have to design my own rituals and excercises around that diety? like experiment?"
Read Liber Astarte.
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Dion Fortunes The Goat Foot God was an interesting read that I think may be very helpful in what you are contemplating.
Homers Hymn to Pan is a classic
as is Crowley'sPan is a very complex force and I have yet to find any one source that does justice.
For working with him.....well he really likes sex.....I mean really likes sex.......at least that what I have gotten out of working with him....very lusty, full of life and love, primal in oh so many ways.... -
Yeah, I was going to say: To worship Pan, just make sure that everyone, man or woman alike, bows deeply before you... facing away from you!
And I do mean everyone!
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@Jim Eshelman said
"Yeah, I was going to say: To worship Pan, just make sure that everyone, man or woman alike, bows deeply before you... facing away from you!
And I do mean everyone!
"lol... And all this happens while "Brown Eyed Girl" is playing in the background...?
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"Jim Eshelman wrote:
Yeah, I was going to say: To worship Pan, just make sure that everyone, man or woman alike, bows deeply before you... facing away from you!And I do mean everyone! :imp:"
it seems that to worship Pan is to have a lot of Fun
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@danica said
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"Jim Eshelman wrote:
Yeah, I was going to say: To worship Pan, just make sure that everyone, man or woman alike, bows deeply before you... facing away from you!And I do mean everyone! :imp:"it seems that to worship Pan is to have a lot of Fun
"This is what hooked into me a long time ago.....
Invocation to Pan by Dion Fortune
I am she who e'er the earth was formed rose from the sea
O first begotten love come unto me
And let the worlds be formed of me and theeGiver of vine and wine and ecstasy,
God of the garden, shepherd of the lea -
Bringer of fear who maketh men to flee,
I am thy priestess answer unto me!Although I receive thy gifts thou bringest me -
Life and more life in fullest ecstasy.
I am the moon the moon that draweth thee.
I am the waiting earth that needeth thee.
Come unto me great Pan, come unto meThis is an awsome site
www.theriteofpan.com/Welcome.htmlWhen I first started looking more into this archtype I found much information to be conveyed in art, namely the paintings, sculptures, vases and bass-reliefs (sp?). I would spend hours looking over prints and drawings for books...(kids books have lots of source material for symbolism).
While I enjoyed reading the mythology stories they seemed, diluted or Panned down (wierd how that word fit). When I looked deeper into anthropology, and animism specifically I found much clarity to the ideas of the Greeks and Romans, and even the Celts, and Norse for that matter. I read a fantastic book on the origins of Eros (whoes title I cant recall, nor did I write it down:( ) in which the primal aspects of Pan were compared and corresponded in a beautiful way.
Never gave it much thought, but Pan is has been pretty much the only masculine aspect I have ever worked consciously with....and my son is a capricorn....Being fun, not just having fun is very intrgral.
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That is a beautiful invocation. I am going to add that site to my list, I havent looked at it yet, but I deffinately will. I have been finding great info on him. It was believed that Faunus was the one who "gave" the romans there beliefs. Just so much that makes me go awwww!
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Among some of the greek/latin names for pan, there was a common greek triad of him. Agreus, Nomios, and Phorbas. All three meaning, the hunter, the shepherd, and the terryfying one. Phorbas, spelled as is, with first Pe, not Final. So spelled Pe, He, Ayin, Resh, Bet, Aleph, and Semekh. Which is 80+5+70+200+2+1+60= 418!!! I'm loving researching on this diety, every step is a suprise!
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The god that I learned to assume godform with was Pan. It became a very fun year long initiation into sex, debauchery, S&M, and all the glory of the Nephesch. Eventually I got over my sexual neurosis and began to see Pan everywhere and all the time. The climax of the working was a full on ceremony using the Hymn to Pan and assumed full godform, so much so, that the officers present claimed a physical transformation had occurred... while the only thing I knew that had changed was that condition of what is in my pants.
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I once ate so many mushrooms and found on my knees babbling like a goat, (bleating is the phrase?), and laughing hysterically, so hard it was almost a seizure. After the goat phase (a good hour or so), I proceeded to give my partner at the time the best (and her first!) orgasm I've ever seen elicited from a woman. This was all in the forest a good ways from anywhere, and it ranks amongst my top psychedelic experiences, like McKenna's acid trip in Nepal.
Just thought I'd share accounts.
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@JPF said
"I once ate so many mushrooms and found on my knees babbling like a goat, (bleating is the phrase?), and laughing hysterically, so hard it was almost a seizure. After the goat phase (a good hour or so), I proceeded to give my partner at the time the best (and her first!) orgasm I've ever seen elicited from a woman. This was all in the forest a good ways from anywhere, and it ranks amongst my top psychedelic experiences, like McKenna's acid trip in Nepal.
Just thought I'd share accounts."
That is awsome! I will be trying shrooms for the first time this coming thursday, I would love to see Pan, or a goat!
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@TheSilent1 said
"The god that I learned to assume godform with was Pan. It became a very fun year long initiation into sex, debauchery, S&M, and all the glory of the Nephesch. Eventually I got over my sexual neurosis and began to see Pan everywhere and all the time. The climax of the working was a full on ceremony using the Hymn to Pan and assumed full godform, so much so, that the officers present claimed a physical transformation had occurred... while the only thing I knew that had changed was that condition of what is in my pants.
"Wow, sounds like you had the real deal happen. I cant wait to see what happens with my experiences. I havent actually started assuming god-forms yet, but soon. I am still sorting out some things plus doing what digging I can on him first to learn as much as I can about him, and then ofcourse getting to LIber Astarte... Oh in Greek Pan is the word for "all". So yeah he is the Great God Pan.
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This thread inspired me to start invoking Pan again!
Thanks!
IO PAN IO IO PAN PAN! -
@TheSilent1 said
"This thread inspired me to start invoking Pan again!
Thanks!
IO PAN IO IO PAN PAN!"I am veryy happy to hear that, I was hoping this thread would be of some use. I have a question for you. When you imaging yourself as Pan in god-form, do you imagine first person? or third person view?
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Well, that is tricky... um, both? If you really read the chapter on invocation, and then carefully read the instructions in Liber O I think that pretty much explains it. I don't really want to impress a "method" onto you. I actually did great just doing my own thing to "get into the mindset of a god," the technical fashion is described in Liber O and does work quite well. But some individuals may have a flair for drama and might want to be a method actor for a period of time, and for those individuals that will lend to more intense results. Some might say that both compliment each other well. I can tell you that if you read the instruction of Liber Astarte you will get even better results.
just to remember that whatever your approach is that you invoke often!
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@TheSilent1 said
"Well, that is tricky... um, both? If you really read the chapter on invocation, and then carefully read the instructions in Liber O I think that pretty much explains it. I don't really want to impress a "method" onto you. I actually did great just doing my own thing to "get into the mindset of a god," the technical fashion is described in Liber O and does work quite well. But some individuals may have a flair for drama and might want to be a method actor for a period of time, and for those individuals that will lend to more intense results. Some might say that both compliment each other well. I can tell you that if you read the instruction of Liber Astarte you will get even better results.
just to remember that whatever your approach is that you invoke often!"
I get what you're saying, I just get confused and ask if im doing it right and what not imagining that way, flopping between 1st and 3rd person view. Also could I imagine myself as Pan? like me with horns and goat features? I think I could pull off being a young pan, with black long hair... Or should I pick a classical image?
At # 14 in Liber Astarte, stating:Yet also he may deliberately practise cruelties, where the particular Deity manifests His Love in that manner, as in the case of Kali, and of Pan. And therefore, before the beginning of his period of devotion, let him practise according to the rules of Liber Jugorum.
@ Silent1. Wondering if you did this also, and if you could expand on it, and no I havent peaked into Liber Jugorum. Yet.24. Concerning the Mantram or Continuous Prayer or for Pan, chi-alpha-iota-rho-epsilon Sigma-omega-tau-eta-rho kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-upsilon, Iota-omega Pi-alpha-nu, Iota-omega Pi-alpha-nu; I tried to find a translator for this, but I cant find out what it means.
I get it. LMAO, nm....