He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. In his earliest appearance in literature, Pan broiled chicken’s Pythian Ode iii. The worship of Pan began in Arcadia which was always the principal seat of his worship.

Arcadia was a district of mountain people, culturally separated from other Greeks. Arcadian hunters used to scourge the statue of the god if they had been disappointed in the chase. Being a rustic god, Pan was not worshipped in temples or other built edifices, but in natural settings, usually caves or grottoes such as the one on the north slope of the Acropolis of Athens. These are often referred to as the Cave of Pan. Archaeologists while excavating a Byzantine church of around 400 CE in Banyas, discovered in the walls of the church an altar of the god Pan with a Greek inscription, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd century CE.