entities: ENT_REC_PAN_ROMANTIC

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_REC_PAN_ROMANTIC Pan (Romantic-Victorian Reception)   Modern reception Deity Deity nature; wild; paganism; counter-culture; freedom; modern reception pan; romantic; victorian; modern reception; paganism; 19th-century; nature deity; horned god precursor     B reviewed Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon (1999); Hanegraaff (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2006)       The Greek god Pan received in 19th-century British Romantic and Victorian literature as the immanent spirit of wild nature and pre-Christian freedom. Hutton (The Triumph of the Moon, 1999, chs. 3-4) documents this as a traceable historical phenomenon: Shelley consecrated a mountain altar to Pan (1821), Byron, Keats, Swinburne, Edward Carpenter, and Kenneth Grahame all deployed Pan as the symbol of paganism's cultural return. This Victorian Pan — a cosmic nature-spirit rather than the specific Greek pastoral deity — became the primary mythological template for the Horned God in Gerald Gardner's Wicca (1950s). Not a survival of ancient cult; documented modern literary-religious reception. deity

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