The Greeks garbled the last three syllables of Ba-neb-Djedet’s name into Mendes, and two Greeks specifically, the geographer Strabo and the poet Pindar, not to say the Roman historian Diodorus of Sicily, made the Ram of Mendes well-known. The good poet and mythologian Aeschylus distinguished between two Pans; a son of Zeus, a twin brother of Areas; and a son of Kronos. They had been most likely restricted to the nice centres of urban civilization where his cult flourished most strongly, akin to Alexandria, Athens, Pergamurn and Ephesus. This gave rise to the cult of the Goat of Mendes, notorious in the West because the incarnation of the Devil, the age-old arch rival to the slave masters of Christendom. Such 'post-classical' works bear witness to the cult of Pan all around the Meditteranean well into the Christian era. The band's career is marked by a continual reference and reliance on musical kinds like American blues, country, folk, reggae, dance; world music exemplified by the Master Musicians of Jajouka; as well as traditional English types that use stringed instrumentation like harps. Pan belongs to that twilight world of satyrs, fauns, centaurs and sileni, who in line with venerable tradition once thronged the globe, and whose descendants may still be glimpsed by the sensitive.
But every era of gods will need to have had its own Pan, seeing that there was already a Pan in Zeus's cave, who helped Zeus towards the Titans, or in opposition to Typhon, and seeing additionally, that a Pan was - together with Arcas - a son of Zeus and Callisto. He sat down beside Zeus and the other gods, and launched his son to them. Nectanebus additionally despatched a dream to King Philip of Macedon, by means of a hawk that he had bewitched with magical phrases, and the king was glad that the child to whom his wife was about to present start was the son of the god Amun (or Ammon) of Libya, who was regarded because the father of all the kings who ascended the throne of Egypt who did not belong to the royal inventory of that country. Johnson, Kay. "The Tale of Angelina's New Son". The case is, that Pan, or Ammon, being the universe, and Jupiter a title of the Supreme God, the horns, the emblems of his energy, appeared probably the most proper symbols of that supreme and universal dominion to which all of them, in addition to Alexander, had the ambition to aspire. Hermetic desire found fulfilment, and a magic youngster was born, with goat's toes and goat's horns, crying and laughing.
The youngster was Alexander the good. This explains the reasons why the Macedonian kings assumed the horns of that god; for, though Alexander pretended to be his son, his successors never pretended to any such honour; and but they equally assumed the symbols, as seems from their medals. When he conquered Egypt Alexander straightway resorted to the oasis of Siwa, to go to the shrine of Jupiter-Ammon. But the myth has traceable hyperlinks with the historical devotions of Egypt. When the Ptolomies dominated Egypt after Alexander, Min was accepted because the Egyptian Pan, and the worship of the goat was conflated with that of the ram. In dynastic times, the soul of Osiris was thought to be lodged within the sacred ram that was worshipped within the Western Delta city of Djedet, and was generally known as Ba-neb-Djedet (Ram-lord-of-Djedet), who remained a preferred deity right down to the Ptolomaic interval. It was Margaret Murray who said that the gods of the old religion become the devils of the brand new. The death of Christ heralded the start of a brand new religion which might bear his title. As this new religion grew and spread, all, or almost all, it came into contact with became its enemy.
This resemblance to the Satyrs, of whom there must at first have been multiple, led to a dispersion and multiplication of the god Pan, who maybe, when he initially got here into being, had solely a single twin brother and represented the darker half of a divine male couple. Thus they at once roused the god to further efforts and rid him, to the better of their ability, of whatever unlucky influence had hindered his activities. It's nevertheless uncertain whether even in the earliest time it was mandatory for him thus to alter his shape with a purpose to play the position of profitable lover with a goddess who repeatedly lets herself be embraced by darkness. Thus Greece succumbed to the wiles of Egypt, however hellenic methods were even so impressed upon the land of the Nile, and the goat would lie with the ram. This devotion Nectanebo took with him when he fled to Greece. Now Nectanebo had been a pharaoh within the XXXth dynasty, and had fought the battle of Mendes, a city within the Delta, Lower Egypt, now called Ashmoun, with Ataxerxes II, his suzerain, king of Persia, whom he had totally defeated, and collectively with his military expelled from the Delta, Nectanebo forever after remained faithful to the native god.