Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth—well there's a film I would have watched just for the hell of it. But yea ok, it does have a pretty cool connection to myth too. Naturally I had to look up the myth of Pan and the little history that goes to it.
“Pan (Greek Πάν, genitive Πανός), in Greek religion and mythology, is the companion of the nymphs,[1] god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. His name originates within the Greek language, from the word paein (Πάειν), meaning "to pasture".[2] He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism.[3]
In Roman religion and myth, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea, sometimes identified as Fauna. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pan became a significant figure in the Romantic movement of western Europe, and also in the 20th-century Neopagan movement."
Not that I've really studied the Spanish Civil War in that much detain, but I did live there for a while and I do know that the civil war is still not really talked about. Let me just say that I've seen El Valle de los Caídos and I can only imagine that has done to Spain. I stood next to Franco's grave...it's an interesting feeling let me tell you since I have somewhat of an idea as to what he did.

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