Was Enkidu the original Pan?

Question

Thier both were Fauns.

Answer 1

wrong! enkidu was like the counterpart of Gilgamesh! he was human!

Answer 2

No.  Pan was a fertility god.  Enkidu was not a god.

Answer 3

No.  Enkidu was a primitive wild man who lived in the wild, but he was not a faun.  He was a companion of Gilgamesh on his quest for the secret of eternal life.  This from my wife who is the expert, in our house, on Sumerian mythology.

I'm well studied in mythology too, and I believe Pan is quite original and not an import from other mythology.  There were certainly horned gods, but few goat-legged and hooved like Pan and the satyrs.

Never thirst.

Bran th' Blessed

Answer 4

Enkidu was created by the gods in response to prayers of the people of Ur who were tyrannized by their king Gilgamesh. He had the torso and head of a man on the lower body of a bull I think. Some satyrs were such combinations of men and horses. Pan and some satyrs were half man and half goat. Fauns were the Roman version of Greek satyrs.

Answer 5

Yeah you know now that i think of it, he probably was. I mean they are both horny. And they both die somehow.

Answer 6

It's very possible. Some Greek gods were renamed from older Sumerian deities. Ditto Roman gods from the Greeks. Pan/Enkidu are sometimes referred to as archtypes, meaning that they are found in many different pantheons but display the same traits or personalities and fulfill the same functions.