To discover the relation between Paean or Paeon, the healer-god, and paean in the sense of "song", it is necessary to identify the connection between ritual chant and the shaman's healing arts.Grace Macurdy, "The Derivation of the Greek Word Paean", Language 6, no. 4 (December 1930: 297-303), written before the deciphering of Linear B, attributes an origin of paeon in the north of Greece, rather than Minoan Crete; she offered the quote from Nilsson, Greek Religion, p. 130.
To discover the relation between Paean or Paeon, the heal,er-god, and paean in the sense of "song", it is necessary to identify the connection between ritual chant and the shaman's healing arts.Grace Ma:curdy, "The Derivation of :the Greek Word Paean", Language 6, no. 4 (December 1930: 297-303), written before the deciphering of Linear B, attributes an. origin of paeon in the north of Greece, rather than Minoan Crete; she offered the quote from Nilsson, Greek Religion, p. 130.