Fear Of The Wild Of Pan Analysis

Due to Pan’s exploitations with sexual lust, according to Aristophanes in Lysistrata (998), an important torment by Pan was a possession known as ithyphallicism. This possession involved a man that could become sexually invaded by Pan’s obsession with anguish (anger or rape) that maddens the person with Pan’s same fury. It was known that Pan was so aggressive he could give erections to the entire male population of a city. The Athenians called persons who displayed wild, unbridled sexuality as ‘Pans’ and the culture believed firmly that rape and bestiality was generated by the possession of Pan’s spirit, and was blamed for creating the city’s accumulated sexual aggressions.
Moreover, Pan was known to aggressively invade human beings causing fright and terror; which became known as panoleptic that the Greeks called panikon deima - literally, panic, fear. This reference later found its way into the French word panique, referencing the theater to Pan’s grotesque fun and holy terror, developing on into English from there. The victims of panic are in the grip of this possession that can become contagious and may affect crowds. Its roots are in the individual’s surrender to the call of the wild of Pan; bringing about irrational fear, loneliness leading to

A range of philosophers and writers such as Homer, Socrates, Plato, and others, had an obsessive passion to connect with the gods, allowing the spirits of lust to possess people with ‘sacred disease.’ Pan was one of the foremost gods that had a long legacy for possession; reportedly he is so primeval he predates to the earliest of times, as mentioned in the Orphic Hymns, (some believing the hymns, go back at least 10,000 years) where the term ‘religious gives a sense of one whom the god Pan