Characters
- Aegipan — goat-fish form of Pan; stellified
- Other Olympians — animal disguises in Egypt (background)
- Pan — god who transforms in the Nile
- Philotes — ally who places him in heaven; Typhon’s opponent
- Typhoeus — attacker who drives the gods’ flight
Places
- Egypt — flight and hybrid metamorphosis
- Path of the sun — wider frame
Themes
Narrative
When Typhon attacked heaven, the gods fled to Egypt and disguised themselves as animals. Pan (or Aegipan, “Goat-Pan”) dove into the Nile; his upper body stayed goat, his lower became fish. In that hybrid form he aided Zeus—sounding a conch or helping bind Typhon—and was placed in the stars as Capricornus, the goat-fish of the zodiac. Handbook astral lore thus ties Capricorn to the Typhonomachy and to Pan’s river metamorphosis, not to ordinary pastoral Pan alone.
Catalogue Capricorn as the stellified Aegipan; Typhon’s full war remains in the cosmogony folders.