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Statue of Pan in Painswick, Gloucestershire
The Cotswold village of Painswick has an interesting past. In the 18th century a nobleman named Benjamin Hyett took up residence outside the village and decided to create an annual procession dedicated to the Greek god of nature, Pan, in which a statue of the deity was carried through the village from the church to the woods. Once amid the trees, the villagers would indulge in Dionysian revelry. The tradition has since died out.
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A maenad and a satyr, interior of Attic wine cup, c. 480 BC. The satyr, with erect phallus, attacks the maenad, who strikes his genitals with her thyrsus, a fennel stalk wrapped with ivy leaves. She wears the leopard skin around her shoulders and has ivy in her hair. The satyr has a pug nose and horse’s tail. Although satyrs often attack maenads, they are never successful. Their sexual excitement is emblematic of their being filled with the god. (Staatliche Antikensammlugen und Glypthek, Munich; Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York)
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