Pagan Portals - Pan: Dark Lord of the Forest and Horned God of the Witches

Please note, this comes from a wild chaotic witch that learns best in wild unkempt places rather than stuffy and boring classrooms. I was hoping for a more magical, wild, and whimsical look at Pan, but found it to be more like a textbook.That being said if you prefer to learn with textbooks and a scholarly outlook, then you might like this.I just found it too boring and dry.

Alot of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's close but some of it is just reaching.

Great read. Author does a great job instilling knowledge and using secondary sources to further her points. Would recommend if your interested in Pan and/or early civilization making.

I found this book about Pan very interesting, informative and enlightening. The bits about the Church's methods to merge Pan with their own dieties, as well as the peak into witchcraft itself was very interesting as well. Read it in one go.

I'd recommend for any one who wishes to know the history and origins of the great Horned God. It is a short read, but all the information is presented in an easy-to-follow format!

Decent little book. You can finish reading it in a few hours.

learned more about pan, easy and quick read

By Alan Richardson, author of Priestess and The Old Sod, biographies of Dion Fortune and Bill GrayAs you read this, Pan is opening his strange eyes with those lucid, rectangular pupils which gives him huge peripheral vision. He is observing you very quietly. Look up from the page, look around. He is here, now. Believe what I say! Also be aware that at this same moment there is an Inner Pan within your psyche who yearns to be aware of things from this wider perspective, who aches to take you toward the dark recesses of your mind, and the wild, tangled undergrowth of your unconscious. As you make your own antic path into the Wild Woods in search of the Great Pan, your nape hairs might prickle, you might see things at the new edges of your vision and strange realms will open up. If you have a frisson of fear – you are on the right path. Keep going. There is light and love there too, in abundance. Melusine Draco’s book is filled with pleasing seeds and roots that she has collected from obscure, musty corners of the mythological and literary forest. Just brooding upon them ensures that they will be planted and grow in your consciousness, often in startling ways. And if you ever find yourself on hilltops in Wiltshire and see an elegantly ageing and once-handsome chappie chanting: Io Pan, Io Pan, Io Pan, Pan Pan! then you’re probably hearing me putting to good use the practical evocations she gives.

I did not understand this book at all.

Great thanks

Reads more like an essay than a simple retelling of the lore of Pan which I loved. It's very informative with lots of reference and clearly well researched. Having no elongated waffle is wonderful, making it short and this means it doesn't drag. If you want to know more about the ancient Pan and where the legends come from then this is great, if you want more of a story you may need to look elsewhere.

I do love these pagan portals. For a small book it's well written an interesting.Very happy.

Nice book but found it quite hard going reading it, I love my books but this was hard going