ATU XV - PAN

Goat-legged Pan is the primal pagan Horned God, (deer-antlered Cernunnos to the Celts). His is the power of nature, physicality and sexuality, thus He is the Lord of the Dance of the material world, the eternal lemniscate (infinity symbol) of animal instinct.
In their condemnation of the body and matter, the Christians turned this ancient archetype into the devil and present Him as a negative archetype; But it is only materialism out of balance with spirituality that creates problems. Ultimately they are one and the same, for Pan is the primal force of nature itself, the forms through which spirit plays. He who plays forever melodies of Earth, His ancient music can bind (as in the traditional Atu 15 image of human figures chained to the devil) or uplift according to perspective. The figures in this picture seem bound to the music, but it is the music of their own animal natures which leads them on to the dance of life. Pan's seven-reed pipes play the seven tones of the seven chakras.

There is also the HermAphroditic form of the Horned One -'Baphomet' to the Knights Templar, or Hindu 'Ardhanarishvara-An'. There is now an alternate ATU XV in the New Edition depicting this form.

From:

The BOOK of KAOS TAROT DECK

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