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How did the images of satyres and god Pan become mainstream depictions

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How did the images of satyres and god Pan become mainstream depictions of devil up to this day?
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>>2989232
Interesting question.
Might be an idea to go and ask it on /r/askhistorians
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>>2989236
I don't want to ask reddit, i'm asking it here.
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>>2989518
Look where it got you, you dumb fuck.
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>>2990136
>>2989236
>Being THIS much of a hardass.

>>2989232
Depends on who you ask. Some say it is coincidental, for the scapegoat already existed; some say it was because they conflated Pan with Dyonisus and thus associated him with the Devil because ascetism.
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>>2989232
Catholic church trying to discredit pagan gods. Pan was the most popular, since normies are obsessed with sex and inebriation, so he was on the chopping block. Although insofar as he was the God of degeneracy he also wasn't such a bad candidate for the devil.
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