PAN
(From the Hymns of Orpheus trans. by R.C.Hogart)
Great Pan, God of the wild
We honor you, ruler of the sky
sea and earth, Light
ensouling all.
The world is yours
Every thing reflects you
Delighted by shady groves'
dancer under the stars
you rule the seasons
Pan, shepherd of goats,
giver of milk, meet and skin,
your horns sprouted
and the world began.
Inspire us
with dance and song.
Protect us from fear.
You love the hunt,
Echo's solitary song
and playful nymphs
All your works
reach fruition.
You rule increase.
Pan, splendid as a cloudless sky
sweet as fruit,
obscure as the deepest cave,
subtle as a snake'
wise as a wolf
no man can resist
your panic.
You hold up the Earth.
You rule the restless sea,
even ancient Ocean, Earth hugger,
loves your law
Air nourishes fire,
fire inspires life.
even the shining blue sky
loves your law.
Protect and care for
matter dancing everywhere.
Grace us.
Lift us, mighty Pan
come near, excite us.
Give us creative power
and freedom from fear.
By far my favorite hymn to Pan
(From the Hymns of Orpheus trans. by R.C.Hogart)
Great Pan, God of the wild
We honor you, ruler of the sky
sea and earth, Light
ensouling all.
The world is yours
Every thing reflects you
Delighted by shady groves'
dancer under the stars
you rule the seasons
Pan, shepherd of goats,
giver of milk, meet and skin,
your horns sprouted
and the world began.
Inspire us
with dance and song.
Protect us from fear.
You love the hunt,
Echo's solitary song
and playful nymphs
All your works
reach fruition.
You rule increase.
Pan, splendid as a cloudless sky
sweet as fruit,
obscure as the deepest cave,
subtle as a snake'
wise as a wolf
no man can resist
your panic.
You hold up the Earth.
You rule the restless sea,
even ancient Ocean, Earth hugger,
loves your law
Air nourishes fire,
fire inspires life.
even the shining blue sky
loves your law.
Protect and care for
matter dancing everywhere.
Grace us.
Lift us, mighty Pan
come near, excite us.
Give us creative power
and freedom from fear.
By far my favorite hymn to Pan
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Re: Pan Poetry
Sun, November 6, 2005 - 12:05 PMThank you so much, dear lady; Your sharing has helped me focus on perpetuating my part of the dance today. -
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Re: Pan Poetry
Mon, November 7, 2005 - 1:20 AMNo problem, sacred pan man, there's more where that came from. Thank you for dancing.
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Re: Pan Poetry
Mon, November 7, 2005 - 7:41 PMHere's one:
My Sacred Lover
by Storm Faerywolf
11/7/05
Long ago on moonlit night
standing naked on the earth
I called to Pan with open heart
and so he came with pleasure's touch.
From wooded darkness he did come
from fervent rut and primal throb
and horned he stood like blackened flame
to touch my skin and warm my blood.
My hands were his and so they worked
with fevered pitch and soft caress
and as our bodies writhed as one
a moonlit river
deluge of stars.
As seed was spilled upon the earth
as lightning flashed across my mind
the chill of sweat upon my flesh
so marked as his was I that night.
IAO! Pan! My sacred lover,
Who warms my bed on winter's night,
I bow before your starry rise
And rest within your starry fall.
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Re: Pan Poetry
Mon, November 21, 2005 - 7:07 AMDon't forget that Crowley fellow.....
"HYMN TO PAN
Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch they wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain---come over the sea
(Io Pan! Io Pan!)
Devil or god, to me, to me,
My man! my man!
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill!
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring!
Come with flute and come with pipe!
Am I not ripe?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp---
Come, O come!
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all-begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
And the token erect of thorny thigh,
And the word of madness and mystery,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The gods withdraw:
The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn
I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man,
In the might of Pan
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!"
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Re: Pan Poetry
Tue, November 29, 2005 - 11:57 PMaye..... thanks Siobhan! on the morrow i will post a poem i love too... for it is the wee hours approaching for me. -
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Re: Pan Poetry
Wed, November 30, 2005 - 12:31 AMlaughing..... i guess its best to scroll down and read the rest before commenting.... lol
thanks everyone! i really loved the one from storm! i soooo love this tribe! -
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Re: Pan Poetry
Wed, November 30, 2005 - 9:31 AMYour welcome. Here's another . . .
From the Homeric Hymns, Thelma Sargent Translator
Speak to me, Muse, of the son beloved of Hermes
Goat-footed, two-horned lover of noisy confusion,
Who cavorts through the woodland dells with the dancing nyphs-
They who lightly tred the steep rocky cliffs that are shunned
Even by goats,
Calling aloud to the shepherd god Pan,
Bright-haired and disheveled,
Who has for his share every snow- covered ridge
The towering summits of mountains,
and sheer rock-slabbed steeps.
Hither and thither through the dense thickets he wanders,
Now drawn from his course by gently murmuring streams,
Now clambering over high rocky cliffs,
Ascending thethe uttermost peak that stands watch over flocks as they graze.
Often he runs through the lofty white-shining mountains
And ofter over the slopes in the chase,
keen eyed and alert, Killing wild beasts.
Home from the hunt returning at evening
He sounds his lonely note,
playing sweet songs On his pipes of reed,
Not even that bird can surpass him in song
Who in blossoming springtime
pours forth her lament from leafy bower
Greiving in honey-sweet tones.
Then the clear-singing nymphs of the mountain
who wander the woodland lightfooted, with Pan
sing by a spring of black water,
And about the high peak of the mountain Echo resounds.
The God glides in and out in the dance,
On this side and that,
Now prancing on nimble hooves in the very midst of the chorus,
Wearing the tawney pelt of the lynx on his shoulders.
His heart exalting in musics shrill sweetness
there in the soft meadow
Where, tangled in grass, crocus and sweet smelling hyacinth
bloom intermingled
the Blessed Gods they chant
and lofty Olympus
and they sing of luck-bringing Hermes above all others:
How he as swift messenger serves all the Gods,
And how he arrives in Arcadia, land rich in fountains.
Mother of flocks
Where lies his sacred precinct Cyllene.
There though a God, he tended a flock of shaggy-fleeced sheep
In the hire of a mortal,
For tender longing came of a sudden upon him
and grew, to lie united in love
With the daughter of Dryops, nymph with beautiful tresses,
And he brought to pass the felicitous marriage.
Dryope bore in the women's halls of the palace a dear son to Hermes
From the beginning a marvelous sight to behold:
Goat footer, two horned, delighting in noice Gaily laughing.
The nurse, when she looked on his hideous fade, fully bearded,
Sprang up and fled from the baby, sorely afraid.
But luck-bringing Hermes, receiving his son at once
Took him into his arms, his heart filled with joy beyond measure,
And swiftly he went to the seat of the undying gods
With the child warmly wrapped
in the skins of mountain-bred hares,
And laid him down beside Zeus
and presented his son to the other immortals.
All the undying gods rejoiced in their hearts,
But Wild Dionysus beyond all the rest,
And they called him Pan, because he delighted all hearts.
Thus Lord, Farewell:
With my song may I please you
I will always remember you,
and with still more songs
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