In the Dark Sea lore, it is stated that the Dark Sea is at risk of overtaking the War Seas with its madness because Hecate’s soul fragments are weakening, and that three gods’ powers could fix this issue, those three gods being Poseidon (the sea), Zeus (the sky), and Pan (the ground).
My question is, why was Pan chosen for this? Whilst I am admittedly not an expert on Greek mythology, wouldn’t Demeter make much more sense?
She is the most well-known goddess of “the earth” in a sense, and she is also known for rebirth, and she is Zeus and Poseidon’s sister, so wouldn’t Demeter be a much more sensical choice than Pan?
If one really wants the wilderness aspect for the deity representing “the earth,” there is still a more fitting choice: Artemis.
So, why Pan? He doesn’t really make sense, in my opinion.
Demeter is a more fitting choice to represent nature and ground, true, but the living beings are more important in this case. As for Artemis, she’s kinda different, just representing moon, hunt and whatever else, not really the living.
No. Gaea is the personification of life and the earth. Demeter is associated with birth. Artemis is the goddess of childbirth and care of children, not just the moon and the hunt. Hell, if you want to speak of living beings in Greek terms, use Hera; the ancient Greeks always associated life with motherhood (for very logical reasons), and Hera is the goddess of motherhood and protector of women during childbirth.
The only tie to sentient beings that Pan has is that he’s the god of shepherds and flocks, and though my knowledge of Greek mythology is, again, not nearly at any expert level, the Greeks likely used this image of “shepherds and flocks” to represent community, simply at a non-human animal level rather than a human, societal level (the latter being represented by Hestia through the hearth).
Pan makes the least sense of all the options. Vetex could’ve chosen Gaea, Demeter, Artemis … all three more renowned and valid choices than Pan. There’s a reason barely anyone knows about Pan as a greek god.
Yes, because she is the protector of young children, especially young girls. There were three mainly worshipped goddesses of midwifery: Artemis, Hera, and Eileithyia, and in a way, they all three represent different aspects of childbirth; in simple terms, Hera is the protector of the mother, Eileithyia is the process of birth itself, and Artemis is the protector of the child, which is why Artemis’ “whole thing” is virginity.
either he wants people to see he did his homework and knows more than just the more well-known gods or theres some other explainations currently eluding me
I feel like there’d be better ways to do that, because to be entirely honest, with what I’ve found so far, it feels like he DIDN’T do his homework and is instead just namedropping deities he found on Wikipedia (which is fine if he is, but you could make it less obvious by using more reknowned deities)
Fair enough for Gaea, which is why I’m more insistent on Demeter, although Gaea could work if you replace Zeus and Poseidon with Ouranos and Pontus, and it would make more sense to have primordial deities being the ones to dispel a powerful force like the Dark Sea.
Artemis could still fit, because she not only represents the hunt, but also the wilderness, nature, vegetation, and, in a sense, life.
However, I’m more of an advocate for Demeter, personally, since she also represents nature and life, but she is also sisters with both Poseidon and Zeus, so I feel like it’d make more sense when you have two brothers to then also have another sibling to round it out, especially when there is one readily available who represents exactly the concept you want to personify in your lore.
isn’t Demeters control of things more focused on agriculture, like I know she controls the health of the earth for like farming and plant growth but isn’t Pan the God of the Wilds/Wilderness
