Pan&Faunus
Shepherds, Wilderness, & Panic
Pan
Pan, the Goat-Footed
Pipes of reeds, goat legs, pine, the panic cry
An Arcadian mountain god of herds and wild places, older than the Olympian order.
Lusty, lazy and terrifying when disturbed — his shout causes irrational panic.
Milk, honey, and the first fruits, offered in caves.
The wilderness as a place of both fertility and unreasoning fear.
Faunus
Faunus, the Prophesying Wood
Horn, goatskin, laurel, the sacred grove
An Italic woodland oracular god who gave answers in dreams at his grove.
A solemn, prophetic wood-spirit rather than a prancing satyr.
The Faunalia: goats, wine and milk offered in the fields.
The forest as a source of prophecy and rustic law.
Syncretism Analysis
Greek Pan is the noisy god of panic; Roman Faunus is a quiet woodland oracle consulted in dreams. Rome took the goat-god and gave him a more respectable, pastoral dignity.