PAN was the god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. He wandered the hills and mountains of Arkadia playing his pan-pipes and chasing Nymphs. His unseen presence aroused feelings of panic in men passing through the remote, lonely places of the wilds.
The god was a lover of nymphs, who commonly fled from his advances. Syrinx ran and was transformed into a clump of reeds, out of which the god crafted his famous pan-pipes. Pitys escaped and was turned into a mountain fir, the god's sacred tree. Ekho spurned his advances and fading away left behind only her voice to repeat forever the mountain cries of the god.Pan
(French)
Fils de Mercure et de Pénelope, Pan est le dieu des chasseurs et fait souvent
peur aux nymphes notamment la belle Syrinx, qui pour rompre sa frenétique poursuite
plonge dans le fleuve et se métamorphose en roseaux. Pan en fit sa fameuse
flûute (flûute de Pan).