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 entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. 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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