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- Enki, the Sumerian god of creation. Detail from the adda seal, c. 2300 BC, British Museum. Modern paganism equates him to the Greek god Pan (goat-devil).
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- Carved horned deity depicted as Shiva from the Indus Valley civilization, 1900 BC.
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- Bronze Reclining Satyr. Etruscan (northern Italy), late 6th century BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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- Pan Chasing a Shepherd. Attic Red ware vase, 470 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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- Pan temple ruins (pre-Maccabean Hellenistic period), Banias Park, Israel.
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- Horned deity figure on the Gundestrup Cauldron (Celtic and Scandinavian), 150 BC, depicting elements of Celtic, Thracian (Hellene) and Near-Eastern culture. Note the similarity to the Indus Valley figure.
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- Pan stele instructions for worship, 1st century BC. Archaeological Museum of Marathon, Greece.
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- Pavement mosaic with the head of Pan. Roman, 138-192 AD. Genazzano, Italy.
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- Mask of a satyr, 2nd century AD, Capitoline Museum, Rome.
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- Classical period satyr sculpture from the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
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- Classical period detail from Roman sarcophagus, Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome. (Cropped).
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- Drunken Silenus. Roman Parian marble, 2nd century AD.
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- Bronze street drinking water fountain depicting satyr. Medieval, modeled after Classical.
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- Detail from Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1345.
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- Satyr stone carving. European, but unknown details. Note the pan pipes.
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- Satyr architectural detail from the Zvinder Palace, Dresden, Germany.
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- Renaissance era coffered ceiling. Ortenburg Castle, Bavaria. (Cropped).
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- Ceiling fresco detail, Homage to Diana by Annibale Carracci, 1602. Palazzo Farnese, Rome (current French Embassy).
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- Detail from a 1617 book on the Philosophy of Jewish Kabbala. Notice the satyr controlling the measuring line.
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- Satyr Holding a Basket of Grapes. Peter Paul Reubens, 1577-1640 (Auctioned at Christie’s).
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- Head of a Satyr. Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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- Carved detail in courtyard of Somerset House, London, England. Dated post 1775.
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- Bust of a satyr, at the entrance to a building on Rue Madame, Paris VI.
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- Pan playing his flute. Illustration by Helen Stratton, for the frontispiece of A Book of Myths, 1915.
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- Wiccan horned deity illustration depicting Pan. Unknown source.
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- In 1966 the Church of Satan was founded by Anton LaVey. Its logo depicts the “sabbatic goat” head inside an inverted pentagram and is used by Satanists around the world.
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- Baphomet ceiling detail from the lobby of the Pacific Gas and Electric building, San Francisco, California, completed in 1971.
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- Detroit Satanic Temple bronze figure of Baphomet, unveiled in July 2015.
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- Screen grab from the Queen’s Christmas message, 2019.
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- Closeup of the bronze satyr statue carrying away a child decorating the palace fireplace.
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