Gateway to the Sanctuary of Pan?

[Angela]

Archaeologists may be a little closer to understanding the significance of the extraordinary bronze mask of Pan, the half goat, half man god which was discovered last year.

Sounds like Manson family types. Most emphatically not one of my favorite cults.

Cleaned up:
http://www.livescience.com/images/i...eg?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=*:1000

See:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4604-160628-israel-possible-pan-sanctuary

"HAIFA, ISRAEL—LiveScience reports that recent excavations at the Greco-Roman city of Hippos near the Sea of Galilee may shed light on the discovery last year of aremarkable bronze mask depicting the half-man half-goat god Pan. University of Haifa archaeologist Michael Eisenberg led a team that unearthed a six-foot-tall Roman gate near a stone building where the mask was found, leading him to speculate that the gate might have led to a sanctuary dedicated to Pan. "The mask, and now the gate in which it was embedded, are continuing to fire our imaginations," Eisenberg says. "The worship of Pan sometimes included ceremonies involving drinking, sacrifices and ecstatic rituals, including nudity and sex. This worship usually took place outside the city walls, in caves and other natural settings." The possible sanctuary was located near the city gates and was constructed sometime during the reign of Hadrian, who was emperor from A.D. 117 to A.D. 138. "

See also:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ro...ippos-may-solve-mystery-of-mask-of-Pan-457886

 

[A. Papadimitriou]

It has some similarites with these ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgoneion

 

[bicicleur 2]

I think it was a 'members only' establishment.

 

[ΠΑΝΑΞ]

I think that rituals -as mentioned above-, should respond to the cult of chthonic deities outdoors -as the springs, caves, sacred groves, etc.- and should not be considered as "grimy" immoral acts will committed outside the city walls.
But what is the origin of the strange deity; -Panas.
Found in Egypt but also in Greece and generally in the eastern Mediterranean, it seems to follow the shepherd archetype that lives on the outskirts of the city line in the development of towns / settlements of farmers.
Flocks are cause suffering for the crops but clean and the scenery from the herbs shrubs and small trees with thorny and sclerophyllous vegetation, the open landscape is clean for cultivation.
This symbiotic farmers / breeders model will continue for many centuries until today, goods shepherd will be sold in the settlements or exchanged.
Pastor lonely and outcast developments, far away from the outskirts, lonely, weird and whimsical faces malice and rumors of citizens - within the "walls" - for crass character and unbridled bestial passion, incompatible for honest social mores.
I think the orgiastic cults had a great impact on indigenous populations ,Kaveiria mysteries, mysteries of Adonis , the Dionysian mysteries, but even the Eleusinian, the Savazia, the Orphic, the Kokkytous, etc., They retain their character for a long time and customs change form and themes but not their commemorative nature for centuries to come, but this will refer below.


Anthropozoomorphic deities.


Satyrs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr
The Silenus: https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenus
but even the Centaurs with the bestial character and fight with the Lapiths, Theseus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur
and the Greek version with the annihilation of Hercules is interesting, unfortunately unfortunately absent from the English. (Try the translation)
There are few times when their behavior puzzled the native ...
What we conclude is that this totemic character of deities apparently suggests ancient origins and a standard primitive power, and wisdom, a shining example of the centaur Chiron.


Pan,Πάνας


deity of the mountains, deity of all nature.
Son of Hermes (Mercury) and the nymph Dryopes (-Dryopes, Pelasgian tribe, Central Pindos,)?
or the nymph Callisto (Arkadia, Peloponnese)?
The panic, the syringe of Pan (pan pipe), and the musical rivalry with Apollo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)

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Our Herodotus gives some nice information. (I quote the text Ancient Greek> New Greek> English Translation)
Translation from Ancient gr. to New gr. - Ant. Zenakos (Αντ. Ζενάκος)
by New gr. in English -Google, Panax


(The upstanding molecules ... !!!)
Ancient
[2.51.1] Ταῦτα μέν νυν καὶ ἄλλα πρὸς τούτοισι, τὰ ἐγὼ φράσω, Ἕλληνες ἀπ᾽ Αἰγυπτίων νενομίκασι· τοῦ δὲ Ἑρμέω τὰ ἀγάλματα ὀρθὰ ἔχειν τὰ αἰδοῖα ποιεῦντες οὐκ ἀπ᾽ Αἰγυπτίων μεμαθήκασι, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ Πελασγῶν πρῶτοι μὲν Ἑλλήνων ἁπάντων Ἀθηναῖοι παραλαβόντες, παρὰ δὲ τούτων ὧλλοι. [2.51.2] Ἀθηναίοισι γὰρ ἤδη τηνικαῦτα ἐς Ἕλληνας τελέουσι Πελασγοὶ σύνοικοι ἐγένοντο ἐν τῇ χώρῃ, ὅθεν περ καὶ Ἕλληνες ἤρξαντο νομισθῆναι. ὅστις δὲ τὰ Καβείρων ὄργια μεμύηται, τὰ Σαμοθρήικες ἐπιτελέουσι παραλαβόντες παρὰ Πελασγῶν, οὗτος ὡνὴρ οἶδε τὸ λέγω. [2.51.3] τὴν γὰρ Σαμοθρηίκην οἴκεον πρότερον Πελασγοὶ οὗτοι οἵ περ Ἀθηναίοισι σύνοικοι ἐγένοντο, καὶ παρὰ τούτων Σαμοθρήικες τὰ ὄργια παραλαμβάνουσι. [2.51.4] ὀρθὰ ὦν ἔχειν τὰ αἰδοῖα τἀγάλματα τοῦ Ἑρμέω Ἀθηναῖοι πρῶτοι Ἑλλήνων μαθόντες παρὰ Πελασγῶν ἐποιήσαντο. οἱ δὲ Πελασγοὶ ἱρόν τινα λόγον περὶ αὐτοῦ ἔλεξαν, τὰ ἐν τοῖσι ἐν Σαμοθρηίκῃ μυστηρίοισι δεδήλωται.


new
[2.51.1] Αυτά λοιπόν τα έθιμα, καθώς και άλλα, που θα τα αναφέρω, πήραν οι Έλληνες από τους Αιγυπτίους, τα αγάλματα όμως του Ερμή με ορθωμένο το μόριό τους οι Έλληνες δεν έμαθαν από τους Αιγύπτιους να τα φτιάχνουν έτσι, αλλά από τους Πελασγούς, και πρώτοι απ᾽ όλους τους Έλληνες τα πήραν οι Αθηναίοι και από αυτούς τα πήραν οι υπόλοιποι. [2.51.2] Γιατί οι Αθηναίοι λογαριάζονταν ήδη Έλληνες όταν οι Πελασγοί πήγαν να κατοικήσουν στον τόπο τους, οπότε άρχισαν κι αυτοί να θεωρούνται Έλληνες. Και όποιος έχει μυηθεί στα όργια των Καβείρων, αυτά που τελούν οι Σαμοθράκες, οι οποίοι τα έχουν πάρει από τους Πελασγούς, καταλαβαίνει τί εννοώ. Γιατί οι Αθηναίοι λογαριάζονταν ήδη Έλληνες όταν οι Πελασγοί πήγαν να κατοικήσουν στον τόπο τους, οπότε άρχισαν κι αυτοί να θεωρούνται Έλληνες. Και όποιος έχει μυηθεί στα όργια των Καβείρων, αυτά που τελούν οι Σαμοθράκες, οι οποίοι τα έχουν πάρει από τους Πελασγούς, καταλαβαίνει τί εννοώ. [2.51.3] Γιατί τη Σαμοθράκη την κατοικούσαν παλαιότερα αυτοί ακριβώς οι Πελασγοί που πήγαν και συγκατοίκησαν με τους Αθηναίους, και απ᾽ αυτούς πήραν οι Σαμοθράκες τα όργια. [2.51.4] Έτσι λοιπόν τα αγάλματα του Ερμή με ορθωμένο το μόριο πρώτοι από τους Έλληνες τα έφτιαξαν οι Αθηναίοι που τα έμαθαν από τους Πελασγούς. Και οι Πελασγοί έχουν γι᾽ αυτό κάποιαν ιερή εξήγηση που παρασταίνεται στα μυστήρια της Σαμοθράκης.



Translation
[2.51.1] So these customs, as well as others, will say, took the Greeks by the Egyptians, but the statues of Mercury with upstanding in their molecule the Greeks did not learned from the Egyptians to make so, but Pelasgians, and first of all the Greeks took the Athenians and of them they took the rest. [2.51.2] Because the Athenians already reckoned Greeks when the Pelasgians went to dwell in their place, so they too began to be considered Greeks. And anyone who has been initiated into the orgies of Kaveires, what are the Samothrace, who have been taking from the Pelasgians, understands what I mean. [2.51.3] Why Samothrace the oldest inhabited those very Pelasgians who went and cohabited with the Athenians, and of them picked the orgies of Samothrace. [2.51.4] So the statues of Hermes with upstanding molecule first of the Greeks built the Athenians that they learned from the Pelasgians. And the Pelasgians have so some sacred explanation appearsat the mysteries of Samothrace.
http://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/ancient_greek/library/browse.html?text_id=30&page=47

is this ritual, ceremonial,or what... Ok, Religious practices keep the ortho-dox, or straight for the Brytonics!


(The unpredictability of shepherds ...?)
Ancient gr
[6.137.3] ὡς δὲ αὐτοὶ Ἀθηναῖοι λέγουσι, δικαίως ἐξελάσαι. κατοικημένους γὰρ τοὺς Πελασγοὺς ὑπὸ τῷ Ὑμησσῷ ἐνθεῦτεν ὁρμωμένους ἀδικέειν τάδε· φοιτᾶν γὰρ δὴ τὰς σφετέρας θυγατέρας [τε καὶ τοὺς παῖδας] ἐπ᾽ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον· οὐ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον σφίσι κω οὐδὲ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι Ἕλλησι οἰκέτας· ὅκως δὲ ἔλθοιεν αὗται, τοὺς Πελασγοὺς ὑπὸ ὕβριός τε καὶ ὀλιγωρίης βιᾶσθαι σφέας. καὶ ταῦτα μέντοι σφι οὐκ ἀποχρᾶν ποιέειν, ἀλλὰ τέλος καὶ ἐπιβουλεύοντας ἐπιχειρήσειν φανῆναι ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ.


New gr.
[6.137.3] Όμως, κατά τα λεγόμενα των ίδιων των Αθηναίων, τους απόδιωξαν δίκαια. Δηλαδή, λένε, οι Πελασγοί, εγκατεστημένοι στους πρόποδες του Υμηττού, εξορμώντας αποκεί έκαναν τα εξής εγκλήματα: οι θυγατέρες τους, των Αθηναίων, καθώς εκείνη την εποχή δεν είχαν ούτε αυτοί ούτε οι άλλοι Έλληνες δούλους, πήγαιναν συχνά για νερό στην Εννεάκρουνο· και πως, κάθε φορά που πήγαιναν αυτές, οι Πελασγοί, αλαζονικοί και ξετσίπωτοι, τις βίαζαν. Και σα να μην έφταναν αυτά τους τα καμώματα, στο τέλος πιάστηκαν επ᾽ αυτοφώρω να ᾽χουν σχεδιάσει να κυριέψουν την Αθήνα.



Translation
However, in the words of the Athenians themselves, they them out (of Athens) fairly. That, they say, the Pelasgians, established on Hymettus foothills, rushing thence did the following crimes: their daughters, the Athenians, as at that time had neither they nor other Greek slaves often went for water in Enneakrounos; and that whenever they went, the Pelasgians, arrogant and lechres, (as Angelas daughter once said ...) they raped them (the Athenians daughters). And as if that were not enough of these incidents, in the end caught in the act to contain a plan to conquer Athens. (Old time conspiracy theories!)
http://www.greek-language.gr/digita...ary/browse.html?text_id=30&page=159&hi=170562



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*The shepherd archetype and modern Greek society.
The urban landscape (Architectural) and the bourgeoisie (political/social) is constantly rising and progress after years of the 2nd World, the capital has half the population of the country, the countryside is deserted ...
The nostalgia for the spirit of another life, imprinted with excellent simplistic tone of the Greek Radio and Television (ERT) over half a century ... (19 secs)
https://youtu.be/Q_jNvmGDqwk




Bourani, (Bourani)
-Carnival in Tirnavos Thessalia (Tύρναβος Θεσσαλία)


Today customs and new generation ... (im not fun of the music, but take a look)
https://youtu.be/VOgnFyPyLCw


also if you have a little patience get a taste of modern morals !!! or "Mom what are you doing over there !!!"
https://youtu.be/QMS4bVk8kyc






Ask you if Pelasgians are Pelasgians or if the Greeks, Greekς ...?





Something from the folk, tradition, the expression: "Alone like stubble in the plain"
What does the poet mean to say? -Can see an oak tree alone but never a stubble, as ever, "a" grass. (?)


(the story myth)
The Pan fell in love with the nymph Syrinx (Syrinx, during the persecution of the virginity of her immaculate purity asked the help of God, the river crossing.
The river god turned into the stubble ...
Pan from the stubble made the flute(-ζουρνάς; pan pipe, since the flute echoes the sadness and loneliness of life of the shepherd.
Really does the flute is not one -and lonely- man show?
So we kinda rightfully stayed the expression: "Alone like stubble in the plain" to express the sorrow of the loneliness.