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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 ...
*Péh₂usōn ("Protector") was a proposed Proto-Indo-European pastoral god guarding roads and herds. [1] [2] [3]He may have had a bushy beard and keen sight. [4] [3] He was also closely affiliated with goats or bucks: Pan has goat's legs while goats are said to pull the car of Pūshān (the animal was also sacrificed to him on occasion).
According to Edwin L. Brown, the name Pan is probably a cognate with the Greek word ὀπάων "companion". [13] In his earliest appearance in literature, Pindar's Pythian Ode iii. 78, Pan is associated with a mother goddess, perhaps Rhea or Cybele; Pindar refers to maidens worshipping Cybele and Pan near the poet's house in Boeotia. [14]
Part of the Vyomamandala showing the rudras - circa 5th century CE, Katra Keshav Dev; currently at Mathura Museum.. The Thirty-three gods, or Tridasha (Sanskrit: त्रिदश, romanized: Tridaśa, lit.
The god Pan first occurred in Jean Giono's works in the 1924 poetry collection Accompagné de la flûte.He is then mentioned in Giono's private correspondence, appears in his first written novel Naissance de l'Odyssée, and was the subject of an unpublished magazine article in the 1920s.
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