Pan didn't die, it was all a horrible mistake.
An Egyptian named Thamus was sailing past the island of Paxi when he heard a voice calling 'Thamus Pan-megas Tethnece!' which meant 'The All-Great Tammuz is dead!' obviously a lament for Tammuz/Adonis.
Unfortunately he misheard it as 'Thamus, Great Pan is dead!' The problem was people believed him and the rumours got out of hand!
An early case of tabloid misrepresentation!
Or perhaps it was one more mistake to be taken advantage of by a crafty and opportunistic 'superbeing'.
I was thinking today about the cyclical nature of the universe, how people are always saying that certain things occur in cycles and that all behavior is repetative. And about how all of this relates into the 'cosmic drama'...everyone having their own role and purpose within a story.
Every story needs a hero and a villain, some source of conflict or cause of drama, a resolution, etc, etc...
I think part of what we're talking about when it comes to paradigms that occur across different cultures are sort of the 'universal' characters which always have to exist at some time on the planet in order for our global story to continue.
Before the days of technological advancement, one had to hire a herald or a scribe or biographer, priest or minister in order to publicize his achievements and make them believable.
This is a good way to document the facts and statistics of a situation from the point of view of the victorious which so often becomes the author of history. But to get a perspective from the 'everyman', or the 'outsider' of history, I think we need to look closer at mythology and folklore.
An eyewitness or a victor in a story is going to tell one side of things. The writer of folklore and mythology, however, is going to look at what is going on around him and include his own opinion of them 'in between the lines' of the tale. So as to disguise opinions which may or may not be acceptable for the time. This was how we come to being able to use folklore and mythology to trace the histories and ways of ancient cultures.
If you look at how the internet has allowed us to boast of our own achievements and to dig up information about people, in many ways it has empowered us to build a powerful reputation for ourselves once again and it's only a matter of using it properly.
If we really want to talk about reviving some of the old ways and going back to before we started to make some of the mistakes society has made since it started to progress....
If mythology had the power to make men into gods...what is the internet going to do about making rumor into reality?