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Pushan (Sanskrit: पूषन्, IAST: Pūṣan) is a Hindu Vedic solar deity and one of the Adityas. He is the god of meeting. Pushan is responsible for marriages, journeys, roads, and the feeding of cattle. He was a psychopomp (soul guide), conducting souls to the other world. He protected travelers from bandits and wild beasts, and ...
Pan is the eponymous "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908). Grahame's Pan, unnamed but clearly recognisable, is a powerful but secretive nature-god, protector of animals, who casts a spell of forgetfulness on all those he helps.
The deity was first proposed due to association between the Greek god Pan and the Vedic god Pūshān first identified in 1924 by German linguist Hermann Collitz. [6] [7]The minor discrepancies between the two deities could be explained by the possibility that many of Pan's original attributes were transferred over to Hermes, [8] [5] the two of which were likely originally the same deity.
Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. He wrote it while living in Paris and in Kristiansand , Norway. It remains one of his most famous works.
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.
[21] [2] [a] Pushan is also stated to have chosen the Ashvins to be his fathers. [17] [22] The Ashvins are depicted as the helpers of mortals in various suktas of Rigveda. The sukta 112 describes that when the sage Dirghashravas prayed to Ashvins for rain, the twins poured sweet water from the sky.
We Are All Pan's People is an album by The Focus Group. "Pan" is a song by The Veils. "The Pan Within" and "The Return of Pan" are two songs by The Waterboys. Pan is referenced in Stevie Wonder's song "Flower Power", from his album The Secret Life of Plants. Pan's People, a British dance troupe from Top of the Pops, was named after Pan.
The poem is found in only one manuscript, the Reichenauer Schulheft or Reichenau Primer.The primer appears to be the notebook of an Irish monk based in Reichenau Abbey. The contents of the primer are diverse, it also contains "notes from a commentary of the Aeneid, some hymns, a brief glossary of Greek words, some Greek declension, notes on biblical places, a tract on the nature of angels, and ...