>>24054774>>24054776This is interesting considering that the Bacchanalia was the closest thing to the Witches' Sabbath in Antiquity, and many of the stereotypes we associate with Satan come from Pan. Jesus prophesied to Peter that the gates of hell would not resist against the Church he would build about him. This prophecy was uttered in in Caesarea Philippi (called Banias/Panias before), a place known then for a temple to the god Pan and a large cave considered "the gate of Hades," where bacchanals took place. Panias was near Mount Hermon, where the Watchers, commanded by Semyaza and Azazel, came down from heaven and made an oath/pact in earth, and Jesus, when he announced his death to his disciples, ascended with Peter, James, and John, and was transfigured along Moses and Elijah, as a preview of the glory of the resurrected Jesus, proving that he is more powerful than death and hell.
According to the Greek historian Plutarch (in the 1st century AD), a sailor named Thamus (yes, his name resembles Tammuz/Dumuzid/Adonis, who had a cult in a cave in Bethlehem, and Jesus was born in a cave in Bethlehem) heard a mysterious voice coming from the sea during the reign of Emperor Tiberius (the time when Jesus was crucified, which, incidentally, was during a Jewish Passover), ordering him to announce: "The great god Pan is dead."
