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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
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 ...
A reference to another Palodes is in Plutarch's De defectu oraculorum ("Obsolescence of Oracles") [2] of which a common reading is that the Greek god Pan is dead. During the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37), Plutarch records, the news of Pan's death came to one Thamus, a sailor on his way to Italy by way of the islands of Paxi .
Al Watan Al Akbar - Pan-Arabic Patriotic Anthem Al-Watan Al-Akbar ( Arabic : الوطن الأكبر , translated The Greatest Homeland ) is a pan-Arab musical created in Egypt . The song was composed by the Egyptian Mohammed Abdel Wahab in 1960, and arranged by Egyptian composer Ali Ismael , with lyrics by poet Ahmad Shafik Kamal .
Pursued by the amorous god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs. In answer, she was transformed into hollow water reeds that made a haunting sound when the god's frustrated breath blew across them. Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of panpipes, which were thenceforth known as syrinx. [1]
A fact from The Great God Pan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 September 2018 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan has influenced such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Stephen King?
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The Great God Pan is a sculpture on the Lewisohn Lawn at Columbia University in New York City. It was crafted by George Grey Barnard (1863 – 1938) in 1899. The sculpture was commissioned in 1895 by Alfred Corning Clark and gifted by Edward Severin Clark to Columbia in 1907. Pan weighs more than three tons altogether with its granite plinth base.