A very naughty boy. Randy little sod. He does things to goats.

A god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, music, and a companion of the nymphs, as many as he could get his hands on. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. He is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens, and often affiliated with sex. Thus, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring.

Pan is famous for his sexual prowess and is often depicted with a phallus. Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, held that Pan learned masturbation from his father, Hermes, and taught the habit to shepherds.

Once, Pan seduced Selene (the moon goddess) by masking his hairy, goat-like appearance with a sheep’s fleece. He lured her down from the night sky into a dark forest, where he fucked her.

A famous myth of Pan involves the origin of his pan-flute, fashioned from lengths of hollow reed. Syrinx was a lovely wood-nymph of Arcadia, a sweet virgin, the daughter of Ladon, the river-god (not to be confused with Ladon, the serpent-like guardian of the golden apples). As she was returning from the hunt one day, Pan met her. To escape his attentions, she ran away and would not hear his compliments. He pursued her from Mount Lycaeum until she came to her sisters who immediately changed her into a reed. When the air blew through the reeds, it produced a plaintive melody. Pan, still infatuated, took some of the reeds, and not knowing which reed she had become, he cut seven (or nine) pieces, joined them side by side in decreasing lengths, and formed a musical instrument which he named after his beloved Syrinx, now mostly known as a pan-flute.