Pan, although not allowed to Mt. Olympus and did die, proving he was mortal in some sense , was considered a god. His father was Hermes but his mother is unknown. Pan was born half-human and half-goat. He lived with the animals he resembled and his playmates were the nymphs on the countryside. When Pan died, Hermes informed the winds that he did not want his son’s death to go unnoticed. The winds told Thamus, a sailor on a ship bound for Italy, that when he reached port to “…take care to proclaim that the great god Pan is dead…” Thamus did what the winds told him, and many lamented Pan’s death, while friends of Pan refused to believe the sotry. Pan was more real to the people who lived in the countryside than many of the great gods of Olympus.