In ancient Greek mythology, the half-human, half-animal faun is a symbol of creativity, music, poetry and sex, as well as a symbol of panic and nightmares. In Roman mythology, Pan is also known as Faunus.
Legend
Paine is a half-human, half-animal god with a pair of goat horns on his head, a goat tail and two goat legs on his lower body. He is the son of the messenger Hermes, a god who loves noise and joy. All wilderness, jungles, forests, and mountains are his hometown. He is the God of Shepherd and the God of mountains and forests. Pan was also an excellent musician. He played beautiful tunes on his reed flute, which often attracted fairies in the mountains and forests to listen. Although Pan was an excellent musician, because of his appearance, every fairy he pursued fled from him, often causing tragedy, and the music Pan played was much inferior to Apollo's lyre.
Although in most stories and occasions, the god Pan is treated as a lustful and elderly image, it is undeniable that there are two stories, which can be said to be very poignant stories, that support Pan's godhead. One is about why he plays with reeds, and the other is the origin of the goat constellation. First, it is said that one day, Pan was walking in the jungle, maybe he was worried about not having a wife yet, when he suddenly saw the fairy Jolinks by the river, fell in love with her at first sight, and immediately followed her. But when he got closer and the fairy saw his face clearly, she panicked and ran away without knowing where she was. Running and chasing like this, suddenly the fairy found that there was a large lake in front of her with no road. In desperation, she had to pray to Zeus. When Pan was about to catch up, Zeus made the fairy invisible, leaving only one person behind. A reed sways in the wind. Disappointed and devastated, Pan had no choice but to break off the reed and channel his emotions and longing for Jolinks into the infinitely gentle and sad music. The other one is about the origin of the goat (Capricorn) constellation. Because Pan was good at playing the reed flute, but was ashamed to sing among the gods, and was sentimental about the reality that he was always abandoned, so he hid in the depths of the jungle and played all day long. After the music that seemed to be alive spread, it attracted countless goddesses and fairies, all wanting to see the person (god) who could play such a strange and moving sound. However, every time, the goddesses would be frightened away by Pan's terrifying appearance. Later, Pan saw and fell in love with the harp-playing fairy in the temple of Olympus, and was deeply crazy about her. But he was afraid that he would scare his beloved goddess, so he had to sit in a lake on the horizon and play music every day. This is a cursed lake. Legend has it that as long as you walk into the lake, you will turn into a fish, so no gods or animals dare to set foot in this river.
One day, the gods came to the lake to hold a banquet and invited Pan to entertain them. But Pan's flute attracted the monster Typhoon (some say this is the mortal enemy of Zeus, a monster with a hundred eyes). At this time, the banquet was completely disrupted, and even Zeus and Athena forgot to fight. All the gods transformed into various animals and fled in all directions. But the beautiful Harp Fairy (let's call her that for the time being) was completely shocked, and even forgot her identity as a god. She watched Typhon approaching step by step, and collapsed to the ground, unable to move. At this time, Pan, the god of love, showed the courage of love. He picked up the fairy and stepped into the cursed lake. He also raised the fairy high above his head to prevent her from touching the lake. Even a monster like Typhon was impressed. He reluctantly turned around twice and slowly left.
Pan and the Harp Fairy returned to the shore. At this time, Zeus and Athena seemed to have awakened to their abilities and returned here, but Pan's lower body had turned into a fish tail. Even Zeus and Athena It cannot be restored. In order to express his admiration for Pan, Zeus threw the image of the faun into the air to form the constellation Capricornus.
According to ancient Greek legend, the earliest musical instruments were given to humans by the god Pan. The story goes that the faun Pan chased the beautiful nymph Syracuse. The escaping fairy was blocked by the Ladong River and fell into a trap. A patronus turned her into a reed. Seeing his sweetheart turned into a reed, the god Pan was extremely sad. In order to express his longing, he cut the reed into several sections, tied it into a bunch, put it to his mouth and blew it - the panpipe, the earliest musical instrument in the world, was inadvertently born.