"Mendes, at which
place they worship Pan and, among animals, a he-goat; and, as Pindar says, the
he‑goats have intercourse with women there: 'Mendes, along the crag of the sea,
farthermost horn of the Nile, where the goat-mounting he-goats have intercourse
with women.'" - Strabo 17.19
Former slave dedicates a stele to Pan in honor of his benefactor
“With good fortune. When Publius Juventius Rufus, formerly Military
Tribune of the Third Legion and Prefect of the mines of Mount Berenike
was Director-in-Chief of the emerald and topaz mines and the production
of pearls and all the mines of Egypt, Agathapous his freedman dedicated
in the Ophiate region a shrine to Pan, god most great, in the name of
Publius Juventas his benefactor.” - SB 10173a
Pan first to learn of Osiris’ death
"The first to learn of the deed and to bring to men's knowledge an
account of what had been done were the Pans and Satyrs who lived in the
region around Chemmis, and so, even to this day, the sudden confusion
and consternation of a crowd is called a panic." - Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris 14
Temple of Pan in Alexandria
"Here [in Alexandria], too, is the Paneion, a height as it were, which
was made by man; it has the shape of a fir cone and resembles a rocky
hill and is ascended by a spiral road and from the summit one can see
the whole of the city lying below it on all sides." - Strabo 17.10
Pan accompanied Osiris on his travels
"He (Osiris) also took
Pan along on his campaign, who is held in special honour by the
Egyptians; for the inhabitants of the land have not only set up statues
of him at every temple but have also named a city after him in the
Thebaid, called by the natives Chemmo, which when translated means City
of Pan." - Diodorus Siculus 1.18
Pan-Serapis-Osiris equated
"Osiris has been given the name
Sarapis by some, Dionysos by others, Pluto by others, Ammon by others,
Zeus by some, and many have considered Pan to be the same God; and some
say that Sarapis is the God whom the Greeks call Pluto." - Diodorus
Siculus 1.25
Pan at Mendes
"This is why the Egyptians of whom I have
spoken sacrifice no goats, male or female: the Mendesians reckon Pan
among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods. Now in
their painting and sculpture, the image of Pan is made with the head
and the legs of a goat, as among the Greeks; not that he is thought to
be in fact such, or unlike other gods; but why they represent him so, I
have no wish to say. The Mendesians consider all goats sacred, the male
even more than the female, and goatherds are held in special
estimation: one he-goat is most sacred of all; when he dies, it is
ordained that there should be great mourning in all the Mendesian
district. In the Egyptian language Mendes is the name both for the
he-goat and for Pan. In my lifetime a strange thing occurred in this
district: a he-goat had intercourse openly with a woman. This came to
be publicly known." - Herodotus 2.46
Pan takes on the form of Capricorn
"When the god in Egypt
feared the monster Typhon, Pan bade them transform themselves into wild
beasts the more easily to deceive him. Jove later killed him with a
thunderbolt. By the will of the gods, since by his warning they had
avoided Typhon’s violence, Pan was put among the number of the stars,
Since at that time he had changed himself into a goat, he was called
Aeocerus. We call him Capricorn." - Hyginus, Fabulae 196
In the Eastern Desert near Akhmin there were shrines dedicated to "Pan who goes into the mountains" and "Pan who is with the expeditions".
City:
Panopolis (Akhmin)
