Pan Lives by sharkrey

Fractal • Mythology • posted on Mar 05, 2005

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Apophysis The legend of Pan tells of a god born with goat legs and feet, horns, and a furry human upper body. The other gods ridiculed him because of his appearance, and so Pan left Olympus, and went to live in Arcadia. There, he spent his time chasing lovely nymphs, and playing on his pipes. Pan was the god of flocks, forests and fields, and is often associated with Nature in general. At times, he would stamp his foot in anger, and cause a "panic" among mortals. Pan became especially enamoured of a water nymph, or naiad, named Syrinx. He pursued her, but she escaped him by fleeing to a river, where she was changed to a stand of reeds. Pan finally took some of these, and fashioned the instrument known as "Pan's pipes", on which he played to console himself. Pan was (and still is) worshipped as a potent deity of fertility and earthiness. This is a single flame with a tweaked, tweaked, tweaked gradient and just a smidgeon of post in PSP. Freaked me out, nonetheless...

Comments (19)

Nightwright

2:03PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Breathtaking! Wonderful colors and design!! Superb!!!

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pericles

2:07PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

A scary Apo Gary looks a little devilish to me - very unusual - well done

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Tarpan88

2:08PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Wow! It really looks like a face. The Greeks believed that when their herds suddenly started running or shuddered with fear that it was Pan who scared them. Thus the orgin of the word panic. Awesome work!

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KITCHAOS

2:25PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

What a great find Gary, that's really something!

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kansas

2:37PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

An amazing flame image. Excellent!

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kenmo

3:18PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Excellent work.....

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maud

3:20PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Very funny and coool..an amazing flame! Colors and design are superb Love it! ~v~ :)

argiebooze

3:33PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

You did this with just ONE flame...WOW!!!. Your efforts were certainly very well compensated in this clever design, and anyway, I believe that Pan knew very well how to have a great time!!.lol.V

kinggoran

4:20PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

The evil apemaskgod, you win this time.

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Kathye

6:21PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Wow yes, even the thumbnail caught me, seeing it full size is even more impressive. Good one.

invidiosa

6:45PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

amazing flame - there is a sense of power in this image - great story about Pan

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Richardphotos

7:49PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

excellent animal fractal and very creative

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kimpe

8:04PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Lovely work, absolutely beautiful.

claridad

9:11PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

Your tweaking paid off! This is a fabulous single flame image with great lighting effects. The story of Pan from Greek mythology is a nice addition to your image.

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Rykk

9:50PM | Sat, 05 March 2005

A single flame??? Wow - that's really cool. Positively Primo Pan's Polygons Pushin'! :?)

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avalonfaayre

12:10AM | Sun, 06 March 2005

WOW~I thought this was probably a composition. Now I really am impressed. Thanks for the Mythology. Is that where "Peter Pan" comes from I wonder?? This is awesome.

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leanndra

1:09AM | Sun, 06 March 2005

Gary, This is outstanding! A really stunning image! It caught my eye when I saw the thumbnail too. Isn't mythology wonderful? This is a most excellent and unique image! Leanndra

live2

7:50AM | Sun, 06 March 2005

This is a marvelious image.....very well done!!

cosmicearthgirl

4:13PM | Sat, 12 March 2005

Fantastic! The lines have such a nice glow to them, makes him look supernatural! Which, of course, he is.