Bread is one of those gods that can be easily misunderstood and their history is a wild trip. With this article, we will learn everything we need to know about him and how his energy can help us.

Who is bread?

To understand the God Pan, a controversial mythological figure, it will be necessary to start from the external features that distinguish this mysterious figure.

Pan is a half -linges, half man and half goat, with such an ugly aspect that his mother, the Nymph Dryope has even abandoned him.

However, it is said that his father is the god Hermes, the divine messenger of Olympus. With the arrival of Christianity, his hooves, his thick beard, his tail and his horns were often associated with Satan. One of its main characteristics was its chilling shout, capable of leaving its unconscious enemies or in an absolute state of panic, hence the name of «panic attack» for the psychological condition of our day.

In fact, it seems that the condition «half man and half beast» approaches the sensation of clinical panic (the impossibility of acting and being caught in an intermediate situation).

The myth of bread: myth and origins

In the myth, he was born from the union of God Hermes with Dryope, the «oak nymph».

Hermes appealed sheep in Arcadia when, seeing that he had it, he fell in love with Dírope and possessed it: from his encounter the little god, half animal and half human, with bristle and bearded face, full of early wisdom, but also of a wild joy was born.

His mother fled to see him, leaving her to Hermes, who wrapped him in hare skin and took him to Olympus, where everyone liked Dionysus. It was called «bread» because everyone fell well. » In occultism, Hermes, or Mercury, the «messenger of the gods», is a symbol of humanity consciousness. ADEPT that, moving to the various locations or divinities of the body, performs different forms of subtle experience of reality.

Of the contact of the spiritual consciousness with the fluid, «feminine» and impersonal entity that bears the name of Nymph (of «nympha» or «lympha», the vital energy of the plants that is located under the sign of the moon), the desire is born, which is precisely bread.

The birth itself, depriving him of his mother, that «flees» because the fluid and unconscious elements of the personality are «set» by the consciousness that destroys them, incorporating them all to herself (bread).

In fact, Pan was androgynous, gathered consciousness, wisdom -the being of man (the old man) -and unconsciousness, naivety -the nature of the woman (the child) -.

The animal and divine side of creation, the synthesis of opposites, with dual forms of consciousness unknown to individuals. Hermes, consciousness, recognizes it and does it his, wrapping him in hare skins (hermaphrodite symbol) and carrying him «up», among the Olympic gods, because the enlightened desire always tends up, giving life to all superior spiritual forms, which only exist in him and through him.

The natural headquarters of God were the desert and lonely places where a silent and powerful, fearsome, sensual presence, which caused desire (man), but also subtle, melodious and irresistible, which attracted as by magic (the woman) was hidden.

The ancient belief

Representation of nature in all its wild force, the God Pan has always been seen as the generating force in a masculine way and even today is recognized by the Wiccan religion as the charity, in opposition to the goddess, the earth, Gea, which is the primary force.

As a fertilizer, he had a great sexual connotation from the beginning, which together with his repellent appearance have made him the symbol of male supremacy.

The big horns, the unbridled legs, the hooves, the tail, the thick beard, the strong sexual burden, the ability to generate panic only with its appearance and cry, made inevitable that with the arrival of Christianity it would be identified with the devil. Or, as some scholars declare, which has been assimilated to the Christian religion with this name.

Nymphs have always been associated with bread and their satyrs, primordial creatures, spirits of nature itself, generated by it. Beautiful girls, also of a strong sexual burden, to the point that the nymphomaniac word derives from their name.

Nymphs and satyrs have always been paired in the thickness of forests, under the branches of millenary oaks, in an old sexual game. That was the primary occupation of such creatures, beings created by nature itself and dominated by it.

Trigger. Generate life, crops, all plant species, flocks and wild animals. Forest protectors and fields, led a simple and bucolic life, played the flute, slept in the shadow of old trees, savored all the pleasures of sex.

Christianity changed everything, assimilated the ancient religions adapting them and, since there was no place for them in heaven, he threw them into hell.

Pan became Satan, and his satyrs in demons. The lascivious nymphs became evil witches, and the pleasant amusements of satyrs and nymphs in the heart of the forest became infernal Saturdays where the witches turned away with goats and deformed devils.

The statues and paintings that represented these antinatural and blasphemous unions resembled the most festive of matters between satyrs and nymphs.

The God Pan touching the flute – the indisputable God of nature – became the Lord of the Underworld, a title that would undoubtedly have been more appropriate for Hades. Once again, poor bread had been betrayed by its bestial appearance. The God of nature, of growth, of life itself, the generator, who gave sustenance to men, was now portrayed as the destroyer, symbol of all evil and corruption.

How had it happened? Why had the shy and ethereal nymphs become evil witches? Why had their earthly joys become abominable Saturdays?

Obviously, a religion that repressed sex and considered it the cause of all misfortunes could not accept mythologies that had made sex their own reason. He could not simply forget and relegate them to oblivion, but it was necessary to demonize them, so that they were always a warning for men.

In his eyes, the mere union of seemingly human girls with beings of animal descent was an abomination, which tried to erase through centuries of oppression and inquisition.

The coupling between the satyrs and the nymphs, of the woman with the beast, had entered the collective imaginary.

The very foundation of the forbidden, which attracted and caused repulsion equally. A spontaneous, primitive, wild, disconnected union from the Christian concept of love, but dominated only by lust and pleasure. An unstoppable desire of these fragile girls by pure sexual act, accompanied by the very high sexual burden of these humanoid beings, extremely endowed to the point that a normal woman would have fled anything else to see them.

In the faded memory of bread and their nymphs, thousands and thousands of women faced the bonfire, some guilty of having known it only in dreams, others of having loved nature and accepted their gifts, other innocent victims of the circumstances.

This assimilation was very strange because Pan is the only Hellenic divinity of which there is a myth about his death.

That is why he is the only God, and therefore immortal, who is still dead. Indeed, the death of that being who loved forests, meadows and mountains, which appealed their herds and raised bees, a perennially cheerful God, so viscerally linked to nature and the pleasures of the flesh, plunged the entire world in anguish when the news of his disappearance occurred.

With him, the wild nature disappeared, the impenetrable forests were now violated by man, the increasingly decimated free animals, the equilibrium itself in which the existence was founded was destroyed.

The myth, that of being a goat, sank its roots in a very distant past and traces could be found in many of the most disparate mythologies. In Italy, it was called fauno, and their species received the names of faunos and silvanos, long before they were identified with satyrs. Magical beings that always, in the pre -Christian era, were considered everywhere deities, life bearers.

They had to pass almost two millennia for bread to recover their primary role of pagan deity.

Together with mythology, a certainly more medical and founded idea was born. It seems precisely the etymology of the word bread that suggests the word panic. Why does bread appear in our head? There is no single precise cause to understand what the panic attack arises, but it is certain that there is a basic non-scoude. In the presence of Alexitimia (inability to feel and express emotions), a great accumulation of fears, impulses and questions will inevitably cause an uncontrollable and sudden explosion.

Sometimes, we look at these symptoms and reactions with suspenders, taking lightly the fact that bread is nothing more than a message not received …