idered to have been
originally a wind-god; but wind, though it might suggest
swiftness (and, with some forcing, thievishness), cannot
account for his other endowments.
[1327] Gen. xxx, 37 ff.; xxxi, 9; Wellhausen, _Reste
arabischen Heidentumes_, p. 196; Westermarck, _Origin and
Development of the Moral Ideas_, ii, 17-19.
[1328] _Odyssey_, xv, 319 f. Lang lays too much stress on
this fact (_Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, 1st ed., ii, 257).
[1329] Gruppe (_Griechische Mythologie_, p. 1384) thinks (on
grounds not clear) that he was originally of Crete.
[1330] So Gruppe, op. cit.
[1331] _Homeric Hymn to Pan._
[1332] Servius on Vergil, _Eclogue_ ii, 31.
[1333] Roscher, in _Lexikon_, article "Pan," col. 1405, and
in _Festschrift fuer Joh. Overbeck_, p. 56 ff. On the
influence of the Egyptian cult of the goat-god of Mendes on
the conception of Pan see Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Pan,"
cols. 1373, 1382.
[1334] Mannhardt, _Antike Wald und Feldkulte_, p. 135 f.;
Roscher, op. cit., col. 1406; Farnell, _Cults of the Greek
States_, v, 431, and many others. To this etymology Gruppe
(op. cit., p. 1385) objects that such a name for a deity is
not probable for primitive savage times; he offers nothing
in its place.
[1335] Plutarch, _De Defectu Oraculorum_, 17; Reinach,
_Orpheus_ (Eng. tr.), p. 41.
[1336] Pindar, ed. W. Christ, _Fragments_, 95 ff.
[1337] _Theogony_, 922 f.
[1338] Euripides, _Bacchae_, 131 f. (cf. AEschylus, _The Seven
against Thebes_, 541; Porphyry, _De Abstinentia_, Sec. 13).
[1339] _Nili Opera_, p. 27; Smith, _Religion of the
Semites_, 2d ed., p., 338 f.; Spencer, _Principles of
Sociology_, i, 288.
[1340] See above, Sec. 384 ff.
[1341] _Iliad_, xiv, 325.
[1342] Perhaps the description of him in the _Iliad_ (loc.
cit.) as "a joy to mortals" refers to wine; cf. Hesiod,
_Theogony_, 941, where he is called the "bright joyous one."
[1343] As, for example, the Arabian clan god Dusares (Dhu
ash-Shara), carried by the Nabateans northward, was brought
into relation with the viticulture of that region. Cf.
above, Sec. 764.
[1344] On this point cf. Miss J. Harrison, _Prolegomena to
the Study of Greek Religion_, p. 366.
[1345] See above, Sec. 680 f.
[1346] _Iliad_, xv, 184 ff.; Hesiod, _Theogony_, 453 ff.
[1347] He is not always in mythological constructions
distinct from Zeus--in _Ili
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