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PAN, Mercury's son, was god of flocks and shepherds. He invented the musical pipe of seven reeds and called it the syrinx after the nymph he loved. To elude him, Syrinx jumped into a pond and was changed into a reed (Met I.689-712). Isidore calls Pan the god of nature (Etym VIII.xi.81), and Petrus Berchorius says that Pan, since antiquity, was called the god of nature (De formis figurisque deorum fol.8vb, 1-2).

The Man in Black is more anguished than Pan, the "god of kynde," or the god of nature, BD 511-513.

Petrus Berchorius, Ovidius moralizatus XV, ed. J. Engels, 40; Isidore, Etymologiae, ed. W.M. Lindsay, I; Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I: 50-53.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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