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Pan is the titular overarching antagonist of the 1894 novella The Great God Pan by the late Arthur Machen. He is the Great God of the Abyss or Deep and the father of Helen Vaughan. He is the timeless and eternal force of the Universe who presided over the Deep Abyss of consciousness.

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Dr. Raymond performed a strange experiment he calls "seeing the great god Pan" while Clarke witnessing. His ultimate goal was to open the mind to experience and travel to the spiritual world, which involves minor brain surgery on a young woman named Mary. She awakens and terrified but quickly becomes "a hopeless idiot".

Years later, Clarke learns of a mysterious and beautiful girl known as Helen Vaughan, who is believed to be the cause of a series of sinister and diabolical events in her own town. She spends much of her time in the woods near her house, where a young boy stumbles across her talking to a strange man one day; the boy becomes hysterical and after seeing a Roman statue of a satyr's head, becomes permanently feeble-minded and stupid. Helen latter befriends a neighbor girl, Rachel, whom she leads several times into the woods. On one occasion Rachel returns home traumatized then she returns to the woods and disappears forever with no trace leave behind.

Years later, Villiers happens across his old friend Herbert, who has become a vagrant since they last met. When asked how he has fallen so low, Herbert replies that he has been "corrupted body and soul" by his own wife, who is later revealed to be Helen. Soon after, Herbert is found dead.

Helen disappears for some time, supposedly taking part in disturbing orgies somewhere in the America. She eventually returned to London under the identity of Mrs. Beaumont, followed by a series of suicides. Villiers and Clarke, each acknowledge of her true identity, they together and face-to-face Helen in her own house. They tries to persuade her to hang herself. Before finally dying, her body changing between human and beast form. She is later revealed to be the child of Mary and the great god Pan, who was let in when Dr. Raymond opened her mind up to him.

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