The Great Pan is Dead

"Then Zeus, who had been just another of the Titans' children, became, alone, the beginning, the middle, and the end" (Calasso pg. 199). This is the sequence all stories must go. So far in class, we've covered beginnings and middles. Now comes the ends. This is best personified through the god Pan's death, which marked the end of the mythological world and the beginning of the religious one. However, hints of old myth carry over into the new ones. For example, it always begins with a bird and a woman. Leda and Zeus in the form of a swan, and the same story with Mary and God. Because of this corrolation, the Spiritismundi (Spirit of the World) has always will exist no matter what religious changes come to pass.