Other Gods- Pan

Pan- god of shepherds, flocks, the wilderness, hunters and rustic music. He was a son of Hermes though his mother varies, candidates were Thymbris, a Naiad who may have alternatively had Pan with Zeus, Penelopeia/Penelope, a Dryad of Mt. Cyllene where Hermes was born, she is thought to be the daughter of Dryopos said to be a mother of Pan, and the reason some writers suggested it was Penelope, Odysseus' wife who was Pan's mother, Dryope/Driope, a Naiad and Hamadryad, though this was probably a confusion with Penelope, as they were both considered daughters of Dryopos seduced by gods in tortoise form (Dryope by Apollo), or Sose, a Naiad and prophetess.

With the nymph Eupheme who nursed the Muses he had a son, Krotos/Crotus, a satyr who was a companion of the Muses. With Symaethis/Symaethos, a Naiad, he fathered Akis/Acis the river god who loved Galatea/Galateia, a Nereid loved and slain by the jealous cyclops Polyphemos. With the Naiad Isemenis/Isemenos he had a son, Krenaios/Crenaeus. He was sometimes said to be father to Silenus/Seilenos, Dionysus tutor and drunk companion who had horse ears, tail and legs, his mother is not given and alternatively he was a son of Hermes or Gaia. With the nymph Echo/Ekho he was parent to Iynx, a nymph who charmed Zeus to love her or Io and was cursed to be a wryneck bird by Hera, alternatively she was a daughter of Peitho and Pan and Echo's daughter was Iambe, a Thracian woman who cheered Demeter with jokes when she despaired over Persephone's disappearance. In one version of Echo's myth, it was Pan who killed her, commanding his followers to rip her to shreds when she scorned his love, Gaia gathered her pieces and only her voice remained, more popularly she was cursed by Hera for distracting her from Zeus' affairs.

A satyr/faun from Fantasia

His other sons are the Panes/Paneides/Paniskoi, twelve in number they may simply be other aspects of Pan- Kelaineus/Celaeneus, Argennon, Aigikoros/Aegicorus, Eugeneios/Eugenius, Omester, Daphoineus/Eugenius, Phobos/Phobus, Philamnos/Philamnus, Xanthos/Xanthus, Glaukos/Glaucus, Argos/Argus, and Phorbas. Satyr like sometimes they were also given goat heads. They helped Dionysus fight the Indians.

Three more Panes were Pan's brothers- Agreus/Argeus, Nomios/Nomius and Phorbas, sons of Hermes with Sose and Penelope respectively, Phorbas' mother is unknown. Agreus was a hunter and Nomios a shepherd and the three joined with Dionysus in his fight with the Indians.

Another Panes was Sybarean Pan/Pan Sybarios, the offspring of a shepherd Krathis and a female goat. This was a Roman story.

Faun from Pan's Labyrinth

He pursued the nymph Syrinx, a virgin follower of Artemis, the river nymphs transformed her into reeds to escape Pan and from them he made the first panpipes. He pursued the nymph Pitys who transformed into a pine tree to escape him. He seduced the moon titaness by wrapping himself in a goatskin or sheepskin.

When Pan was born he had goat's legs and horns and was abandoned by his mother or nurse. Hermes however was delighted with him and took him up.

He can be linked to Aegipan, a son of Zeus and Aega/Boetis/Aix, confusingly given as a descendant of Hephaestus who was nursemaid to Zeus and wife to Pan, a daughter of King Olenus, son of Hephaestus, or Melissus king of Crete, or the Titans Perses and Helios who was confined in the cave where she suckled Zeus because her brightness frightened the other Titans. Zeus may have wore her skin as his aegis, which explains why in some versions she is a goat. Aegipan was half goat and half fish and also said to be father to Pan, he helped Hermes retrieve Zeus' sinews when Typhon stole them.

Pausanias says he found Demeter when she hid herself in grief and anger after Persephone's abduction and Poseidon's rape.

He is sometimes said to have given Artemis her hunting dogs and taught her twin Apollo the gift of prophecy.

He was a companion to Rhea, a mountain goddess, and to Dionysus.

The popular story of Apollo and the satyr Marsyas' music contest is sometimes retold with Pan being Apollo's challenger. The mountain god Tmolus is the judge and he rewards victory to Apollo, all but King Midas agree and as punishment, Apollo curses Midas with donkey ears. The only difference between this tale and that with Marsyas is that Marsyas is flailed by Apollo for his insolence but obviously Apollo could not do the same to a fellow god.

His most famous story is a curious one from Plutarch, that of his death. During the reign of the Emperor Tiberius a sailor, Thamus, claims a voice called to him across the ocean telling him to proclaim that the great god Pan was dead. Salomon Reinach suggests he misheard 'Thamus Panmegas tethneke', which actually means ''the all-great Tammuz is dead', Tammuz being a Summerian god of vegetation and food.

His animals were the goat and tortoise and his plants the pine, reed and beech.

His Roman counterparts are Faunus/Phaunos and Silvanus. Faunus was given as a Greek deity by Nonnus, a son of Poseidon and Circe/Kirke. The Roman deity was a horned god of the forest, fields and wilderness, usually given goat legs he was depicted as a faun, the Roman name for satyr. Virgil says he came from Arcadia. As a god of prophecy he was known as Fatuus and those who slept in precincts on the fleeces of sacrificed lambs were told the future in their dreams.
His wife, sister or daughter was Fauna/Fatua, and his son was Latinus/Lavinius, king of the Latins and father to Lavinia, who was meant to be wed to the king Turnus but was instead given to the Trojan hero Aeneas, resulting in a brief war. Pan had Latinus with Marica, a nymph. Sometimes he was said to have been a mortal king of Latium, son of Picus who was turned into a woodpecker after scorning Circe's love, and Canens, a nymph of song who killed herself after her husband's transformation. Picus was said to be a son of Saturnus/Saturn or Mars. After his mortal death Faunus became a god.
He may have initially been depicted without horns until he was linked to Pan.
He was also known as Inuus, another name for Fatuus/Fatulcus, a god of copulation.

Silvanus was a Roman guardian of forests, also associated with the boundaries between fields. He protected cattle, promoting their fertility and warding wolves off from them. The syrinx (pan flute) was sacred to him and he was usually depicted as an old man. Women may have been exempt from his worshipping him as he was a god of the labour men did in the fields.
He was said to love Pomona, the goddess or nymph of fruitful abundance and orchards, a Numia (guardian spirits). She rejected him and Picus and married Vertumnus/Vortumnus/Vertimnus the god of seasons who tricked her by disguising himself as an old woman. Sometimes he was said to have loved Cyparissus/Kyparissos, a boy who loved a stag which he accidentally killed, in his grief he turned into a cypress tree. Usually Apollo is said to love the boy. Servius says Silvanus accidentally killed the deer and transformed the boy in his grief, and carries the cypress tree with him as a reminder.
He may also have been a Roman counterpart for Silenus, Dionysus' tutor and drunk companion.