title: Pagan Portals - Pan: Dark Lord of the Forest and Horned God of the Witches
author:  Melusine Draco 
description: <span><span>Mlusine Draco originally trained in the magical arts of traditional British Old Craft with Bob and Mrim Clay-Egerton. She has been a magical and spiritual instructor for over 20 years with Arcanum and the Temple of Khem, and writer of numerous popular books. She now lives in Ireland near the Galtee Mountains.</span></span>
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  ## Chapter One
  
  
  ### Province of Rhaetia, late summer, regnal year three of Marcus Aurelius
  Severus Alexander Augustus
  
  
  You can find such a place anywhere and, when you do, you are free to come and
  go to it as often as you choose afterwards. It is yours alone, no matter how
  many others may walk there, where you can find gods in the unseen wind that
  drags fingers through trees, or in the sun dancing on shiny water.
  
  
  Drust and the Brothers had made shrines and obeisance from one end of the
  Empire to the other, put one stone on top of another, spilled wine, left food
  and asked for forgiveness, favour or just to live through one more _harena_
  fight. They knew you did not need stone pillars or altars or priests – yet
  this was Rhaetia, whose woods were scattered with such sacred places, lurking
  in the Dark, a place