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The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the newspaper The Whirlwind in 1890
The Great God Pan, The Three Impostors, "The White People," The Hill of Dreams Signature Arthur Machen ( / ˈ m æ k ən / or / ˈ m æ x ən / ; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) [ 1 ] was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones , a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Great God Pan, front and back, in 1902. The sculpture depicts the Greek god Pan, a half-man, half-goat deity associated with pastoral living, rustic music, and carnality. Barnard's Pan is mature and strongly muscled, with a long tangled beard, the ears and cloven hooves of a goat, but no horns or tail.
Pan could be multiplied into a swarm of Pans, and even be given individual names, as in Nonnus' Dionysiaca, where the god Pan had twelve sons that helped Dionysus in his war against the Indians. Their names were Kelaineus, Argennon, Aigikoros, Eugeneios, Omester, Daphoenus, Phobos, Philamnos, Xanthos, Glaukos, Argos, and Phorbas.
His appearance and action were based on a mixture of Celtic mythology, Roman mythology, and the deity's appearance in Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan. [36] Nodens first appeared in Lovecraft's 1926 novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, where he is an "archaic" god served by the night-gaunts.
Justinus Primitive produced the Pan-inspired album Praise Pan, Great God Pan, and the songs "On Becoming Water", "Praise Pan, Great God Pan", and "Transformation Mantra". In "Joueur de flute" by Albert Roussel, one of the four movements is named after Pan. "Dryades et Pan" is the last of three Myths for violin and piano, Op. 30, by Karol ...
The Great God Pan, a Choral Ballet for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (Sheffield Festival 1920) The Song of Songs for soloists, double chorus and orchestra (started in 1912 completed 1922; text: Book of Solomon, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester, 1922, then Dorothy Silk, Frank Mullings, Norman Allin, Hallé, composer, 10 March 1927)
Her play The Great God Pan opened at Playwrights Horizons in December 2012 and closed on January 13, 2013. [16] Directed by Carolyn Cantor, the cast featured Becky Ann Baker, Peter Friedman, Jeremy Strong (Jamie), Keith Nobbs (Frank) and Joyce Van Patten. [17] The play concerns a journalist, Jamie, age 32.