Chapter 68 Pan's Character and Story

Pan's Character and Story In Greek mythology, the shepherd god is called "Pan".It's oddly shaped, man He has a leg of lamb, a beard, and horns on his head. In his spare time, he likes to play the flute made of reed pipes. Pan's portrait is readily available in Greek sculpture and classical painting. Pan is the god of shepherds, who roams the mountains and forests during the day, taking care of the herds of cattle and sheep, shepherds and hunters, protecting They drive out the wild beasts that invade them.But it has a strange temper. It takes a nap at noon. No one is allowed to make noise during the nap, if it is woken up accidentally by some noise, it will lose its temper

Qi, bringing disasters to people, often makes people suddenly panic and go crazy.Therefore the shepherds of the Greek age, in In the afternoon, it is forbidden to play the reed flute or call the herd, and it is forbidden to bark the dog, so as not to wake up the shepherd in the afternoon nap. God, bring disaster and so on.Because of this, the term "panic" in English has been The etymology of the word still has traces of this myth, because the free translation of this word is "Pan's fear". I have been reading Aesop's fables these days, and found that there is also a story about Pan and Ren in it, which I translated by hand

Let me describe it below, so that although it has a weird temper, it is still innocent and simple: For a while, Pan got along well with people.One day, it was a cold winter, Pan and People chat together.Because of the cold weather, people keep putting their fingers to their mouths to keep warm.Pan watched puzzled.People told it to keep fingers warm for the cold weather.Later in the afternoon, big The family eats together.Because the food is very hot, people put the rice cake to their mouths and blow it.Pan looked again Puzzled, the man told him that because the food was too hot, it could be blown cold by putting it near his mouth.

Pan was displeased when he heard this, and said, "I can't be friends with you anymore, because your mouth is actually Hot and cold are uncertain."