More on the Closure of the Old Ways

[sdi]

Fun fact: the earliest reference to Pan that we have in literature is Pindar's third Pythian ode (c. fifth century BC):

But I am minded to pray to the Mother for him, to the awful goddess unto whom, and unto Pan, before my door nightly the maidens move in dance and song.

The "Mother" mentioned is presumably Demeter or Rhea or Kybele; that is to say, Isis. Given that He shows up in the Isis and Osiris myth, we might presume that's His origin. Chalk up another Greek deity with an Egyptian root, I suppose.

One wonders if the whole "the great god Pan is dead" thing—which, by the by, happened during the reign of Tiberius, presumably sometime around the crucifixion of Jesus—was a prophetic statement saying that, during the Christian era, the old ways of return were closed (as I noted via other reasoning). The Christians seem to have fallen down on the job, however, and by 1799, Divinity seems to have elected to reopen the old ways temporarily so as not to leave us poor humans stranded.

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[sdi]

A third point in the same direction that the old ways may indeed be closing.