Pan - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 37.923 W 079° 25.443
17T E 627129 N 4832213
One of the 20 statues at the Garden of the Greek Gods on the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) grounds in Toronto.
Waymark Code: WM7ZAG
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 12/28/2009
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This Limestone statue is sculpted by Elford Bradley Cox in 1979
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Text from the plaque:
PAN
The elusive god of the forest, half man, half goat, full of fun and games he invented the reed pipes and filled the wood with their sounds.
Pan
He was the son of Hermes and Penelope (later married to Odysseus) in some myths and the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto in others. He was the god of flocks and shepherds. He is the god of goatherds and shepherds. He is mostly human in appearnce but, with goat horns and goat feet. He is an excellent musician and plays the pipes. He is merry and playful frequently seen dancing with woodland nymphs. He is at home in any wild place but, is favorite is Arcady, where he was born. He is always in pursuit of one of the nymphs but, always rejected because he is ugly.
His name is the basis for the word "panic". There are two differing explanations for this. The first is that he was present when Zeus defeated the Titans and claimed that it has his yelling that caused the Titans to flee. However, this seems at odds with his being Hermes son. The second is that he created the noises in the woods at night the scared travelers.
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