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MageSteff
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SPEC: Tree of Myths pages

This is what I sent Dale and Wes, after kicking the idea around in the CTW chat room ... what do you think?

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Hey Wes and Dale

I was looking at the planets provided by the guides at Mythosphere... and after doing some digging throug clue search this is what I discovered relating to the symbols in the borders...

Missing manuscript pic referenced:
http://www.missingmanuscript.com/picturepage14.html

where I got my info from:
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html (and associated links for other planets)

Top border symbol symbol: Saturn (Cronius, Cronos)

Left side border: top to bottom
left top: Venus (Aphrodite, Love)
left middle: Jupiter (Zeus, son of Cronos)
left bottom: Mercury (Hermes, messenger)

Right side top to bottom
RT: Mars (War, Ares)
RM: Luna (Moon, Diana or Artemis)
RB: Sol (Sun, Apollo)

Unfortunately if there is a symbol in the middle bottom it is covered. Wes, if you get a good look at it, let me know OK?

Steffeny

OK I found an end to pull on, think you can find a hand hold?

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:22 am

Myssfitz
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Also on that page is the Tarot card of Pan by Brian Froud. Here is some info on Pan pertaining to Greek Mythology. (info found about half way down the page).

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PAN (" pasturer "), in Greek mythology, son of Hermes and one of the daughters of Dryops (" oak-man "), or of Zeus and the nymph Callisto, god of shepherds, flocks and forests. He is not mentioned in Homer or Hesiod. The most poetical account of his birth and life is given in the so-called Homeric hymn To Pan. He was born with horns, a goat's beard and feet and a tail, his person being completely covered with hair. His mother was so alarmed at his appearance that she fled; but Hermes took him to Olympus, where he became the favourite of the gods, especially Dionysus. His life and characteristics are typical of the old shepherds and goatherds. He was essentially a rustic god," a wood-spirit conceived in the form of a goat," living in woods and caves, and traversing the tops of the mountains; he protected and gave fertility to flocks; he hunted and fished; and sported and danced with the mountain nymphs. A lover of music, he invented the shepherd's pipe, said to have been made from the reed into which the nymph Syrinx was transformed

PAN�PANAETIUS

663

when fleeing from his embraces (Ovid, Metam. i. 691 sqq.). With a kind of trumpet formed out of a shell he terrified the Titans in their fight with the Olympian gods. By his unexpected appearance he sometimes inspires men with sudden terror� hence the expression " panic " fear. Like other spirits of the woods and fields, he possesses the power of inspiration and prophecy, in which he is said to have instructed Apollo. As a nature-god he was brought into connexion with Cybele and Dionysus, the latter of whom, he accompanied on his Indian expedition. Associated with Pan is a number of Panisci, male and female forest imps, his wives and children, who send evil dreams and apparitions to terrify mankind. His original home was Arcadia; his cult was introduced into Athens at the time of the battle of Marathon, when he promised his assistance against the Persians if the Athenians in return would worship him. A cave was consecrated to him on the north side of the Acropolis, where he was annually honoured with a sacrifice and a torch-race (Herodotus vi. 105). In later times, by a misinterpretation of his name (or from the identification of the Greek god with the ram-headed Egyptian god Chnum, the creator of the world), he was pantheistically conceived as the universal god (TO iraf). The pine and oak were sacred to him, and his offerings were goats, lambs, cows, new wine, honey and milk. The Romans identified him with Inuus and Faunus.
http://97.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PA/PAN_IN_GREEK_MYTHOLOGY_.htm

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