Bird Gods in Ancient Europe 



after the tongues which might have explained 

 the root had disappeared from Greece. 



Pan was a far older god on classic soil than 

 Zeus or Apollo or Hera or Mercury — gods 

 who usurped certain parts of him, gods who 

 show his attributes separated and differentiated. 

 In a language like Finnish the vowel in Pan 

 would be broken up into several, as we see by 

 his parallel, Vainamoinen. We see the same 

 in Pan's name in oldest Greece : Paian, Paieon. 

 The Greeks of Aryan blood, the intrusive 

 Greeks, did not ignore him entirely when they 

 dispossessed him from Olympus and enthroned 

 Zeus there, when they forced him to give 

 quarters to Apollo on Mount Lycaeus. Homer 

 speaks of him as Paian, or Paieon, the healing 

 god, as Welcker pointed out long ago. The 

 worshippers of Phoebus Apollo merely re- 

 peated his name when they shouted their 

 " paeans " and it is again the name of this old 

 god which we find in that of the Paiones, 

 tribes of Thessaly and Macedonia who spoke 

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