Welcome to the Shrine
I have a mate who is a fully paid-up pagan and druid. He's also one of the most gregarious people you could meet, and is happy to talk to anyone. In fact there's nothing that gives him greater pleasure than meeting new people. So, when a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses appeared at the door one morning, rather than slamming the door or muttering some feeble excuse as the rest of us do, he invited them in for a chat. They must have thought their luck had changed.

At that precise moment he was up to his elbows in a startlingly full nappy, so told them to wait for a moment while he sorted out the little tyke, and left them in the living room. A room which, in one corner, is a kind of shrine to Pan, with various goblets, candle-holders and pentagrams scattered around, and as a centrepiece, a large - 2m high - painting of Pan.

Now Pan, for those who don't know, is half man, half goat, with cloven hooves and horns. In this picture he was depicted rising from the flames of a fire, and surrounded by dancing creatures, and more pagan pentagrams. Quite similar, in fact, to the christian depiction of Satan, even though there is no actual connection between the two.

So it was probably not surprising that, when my mate returned to the room, the two polyester-suited ones were nowhere to be seen. Apparently there were scorch marks on the doormat, and a cloud of dust disappearing over the horizon.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 9:24, 1 reply)

I thought there was a connection with the imagery?
Isn't the modern Christian satan based on Pan a little? I thought they nicked the pentogram too?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 12:15, closed)