What is your deity's name, and what concepts of the human condition do they represent?

Pan is a God of the wild, fertile, untamed land, shepherds and mountain people, rustic music, and wild dancing. He’s a god of satire, seduction, and celebration.

Give a brief description of your god's backstory. How were they born/created? Who are they married to?

There are more stories of Pan’s parentage than there are flowers in the meadows, but the most likely culprits are Hermes, Zeus, or Dionysus. He may predate the Olympians, or perhaps, he is simply a rural deity that folded into their pantheon.

As for marriage, well . . . Pan’s not really the marrying type, although he boasts of once making love to the moon goddess, Selene. He’s most often found pursuing nymphs in the fields of Arcadia.

What is something about your deity that most people don’t know?

Most people understand that Pan was not worshiped in the traditional temples of Greece, but in the fields and the mountains. What they don’t know is that it was a specific field – the rolling wilderness of Arcadia, a region in Greece. It was such a beautiful, enchanting area, filled with lush grottos, sumptuous forests, and pastoral meadows. During the European Renaissance, the word “Arcadia” came to mean “Paradise”.

What's something unique you've learned from working with them this year?

I tend to be a pretty driven individual in my personal and professional life, but Pan reminds me to take the scenic route. Life can be brutish, difficult, and filled with worry, so if you don’t take the moments to laugh, dance, sing, and play, you will miss out on some of life’s greatest joys . . . like making love to moon goddess!

If you were to spend a day with your deity, what activities would you do? How would they react to those mortal activities?

Pan would love to go to a big music festival – clomping away in the mosh pit, bellowing along with the chorus, and feasting on whatever fried things on a stick he could find.

Meet Pan in the flesh and witness the gods walk the earth at Spring Mysteries Festival.