austin_tycho

This site is pretty cool. I don't know how accurate the information is, but it looks like fun. The entry for Pan:

PAN: God of Shepherds, Flocks and Fornication. (What does that tell you about the ancient Greek countryfolk then?)

The son of HERMES, and possibly a goat, PAN was one of the DIONYSUS drinking crowd, with all the leering lusty living that entails. Woodland glades. NYMPHS. Orgies. Flutes. That sort of thing. You get the picture.

As a God with his hooves firmly placed on the ground, PAN was (and still is) worshipped as a potent deity of fertility and earthiness.

He was known as FAUNUS by the faunicating Romans. In time his carefree lifestyle began to upset the early Christians, who saw his earthy temptations as a manifestation of the Devil. Who would've thought that the horny old goat would become the blueprint for Satan, cloven hooves, horns and all?

They even have Mielikki:

MIELIKKI: Mistress of the Forest. She's Mrs TAPIO, and the mother of NYYRIKKI and TUULIKKI.

Her husband often refers to her as 'All-Pleasing Woman'. But as he's a tree, it's hard to know what to make of that. How do you please a tree?