Pan Lives by sharkrey
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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)
Breathtaking! Wonderful colors and design!! Superb!!!
A scary Apo Gary looks a little devilish to me - very unusual - well done
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!
What a great find Gary, that's really something!
An amazing flame image. Excellent!
Excellent work.....
Very funny and coool..an amazing flame! Colors and design are superb Love it! ~v~ :)
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
The evil apemaskgod, you win this time.
Wow yes, even the thumbnail caught me, seeing it full size is even more impressive. Good one.
amazing flame - there is a sense of power in this image - great story about Pan
excellent animal fractal and very creative
Lovely work, absolutely beautiful.
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.
A single flame??? Wow - that's really cool. Positively Primo Pan's Polygons Pushin'! :?)
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.
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
This is a marvelious image.....very well done!!
Fantastic! The lines have such a nice glow to them, makes him look supernatural! Which, of course, he is.