Pan

"In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens, and often affiliated with sex; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring." [Pan, Wikipedia]

Henry Armitage vaguely compared Pan to Yog-Sothoth when he said "Shew them Arthur Machen’s Great God Pan and they’ll think it a common Dunwich scandal!" [HPL Dunwich (online text)]. The analogy is to the storyline of Machen's story "The Great God Pan," in which Pan impregnates a human woman, who gives birth to an abominable child; just as Yog-Sothoth impregnated Lavinia Whateley, who gave birth to Wilbur Whateley and the Dunwich Horror.

Phillips Keith identified the Great God Pan as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. Gazing at the creature, Keith experienced what the old priests of Pan used to call ecstasy. [RB Hell (online text)]

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