Note 1616 — Chapter XII · ORPHIC COSMOGONY.

The Orphic conception of Pan as All-god was no doubt helped out by the fact that as early as the time of Herodotus (II. 46) the analogy was noted between the Greek Pan and the Egyptian Mendes, who was both Goat-god and All-god; see Roscher, ‘Pan als Allgott’ in Festschrift f. Overbeck, 1893, p. 56 ff., and for Mendes, Roscher, s.v.