This is why the Egyptians of whom I have spoken sacrifice no goats, male or female: the Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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