Typhon

• After Zeus defeated the titans with the help of his fellow younger gods, other monsters came forth to challenge him. Gaia and Tartarus created Typhon, a giant with a hundred serpent heads, who they sent to attack the younger gods. Typhon is sometimes depicted as a great dragon god, his size and dragon heads making him a fearsome opponent for Zeus. Some accounts of Typhon depict him as a member of the great Gigantomachy who challenged Zeus together, while others claim that he went alone to battle the younger gods.
  
  

Pan

• Pan was one of the younger gods who served as the god of shepherds and flocks. He typically appeared as a small man with the horns and lower body of a goat. His human face was bearded, with a small snub nose and pointed ears. He was widely known for his promiscuity toward nymphs, as he pursued several without success. Legends state that after he turned the nymph Syrinx into a clump of reeds as punishment for fleeing from him, he crafted the reeds into his trademark pan-pipes or panflute.
  
  

Typhon's Attack

• The myth of Typhon's attack recalls Pan's inadvertent heroism. Pan was the first of the younger gods to see Typhon's approach. He was in the Nile River, away from the others, trying to woo a sea nymph. As Typhon drew near, Pan called out to his fellow younger gods to warn them, and they morphed into animal forms to escape the giant's wrath. Pan, however, had taken too much time warning the others. There was no time left to fully morph into his goat form before Typhon reached him. In his rush to transform, his lower body became that of a fish while his upper body transformed into a goat.
  
  

Pan Immortalized

• According to legend, Zeus was grateful for Pan's warning and rewarded him by placing his image in the sky. He arranged the constellation Capricorn in a commemorative image and placed it among the Zodiac Belt, immortalizing Pan and his deeds among the heavens.