Athanasius Kircher - Hieroglyphical Representation Of Jupiter Or Pan, “Oedipus Aegyptiacus”, 1652.

Athanasius Kircher - Hieroglyphical Representation of Jupiter or Pan, “Oedipus Aegyptiacus”, 1652. The great Pan was celebrated as the author and director of the Sacred Dances which he is supposed to have instituted to symbolize the Circumambulations of the Heavenly Bodies. Pan was a composite Creature, the upper part - with the exception of his Horns - being Human, and the lower part in the form of a Goat. Pan is the prototype of Natural Energy and, while undoubtedly a Phallic Deity, should nor be confused with Priapus. The pipes of Pan signify the Natural Harmony of the Spheres, and the God himself is a Symbol of Saturn because this Planet is enthroned in Capricorn, whose emblem is a Goat. The Egyptians were initiated into the Mysteries of Pan, who was regarded as a Phase of Jupiter, the Demiurgus. Pan represented the impregnating Power of the Sun and was the chief of a horde rustic Deities, and Satyrs. He also signified the controlling Spirit of the Lower Worlds. The fabricated a story to the effect that at the time of the birth of Christ the Oracles were silenced after giving utterance to one last cry, “Great Pan is Dead!”