Baneas National park source of the River Jordan,temple to the God Pan

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Caesarea Philippi was an ancient Roman city located at the southwestern base of Mount Hermon . The city is mentioned in the gospels of Matthew,[1] and Mark[2]. The city was located within the region known as the "Panion" . Named after the deity associated with the grotto and shrines close to the spring called "Paneas". Today, the city, now no longer inhabited, is an archaeological site located within the Golan Heights. Panias is a spring, also known as Banias, named for Pan, the Greek god of desolate places. It lies close to the fabled "way of the sea" mentioned by Isaiah. along which many armies of Antiquity have marched. In the distant past a giant spring, gushed from a cave in the limestone bedrock, tumbling down the valley to flow into the Huleh marshes Paneas was an ancient place of great sanctity , the cult of its local numen gave place to the worship of Pan, to whom the cave was dedicated and from which the copious spring feeding the Huleh mashes rose and ultimately supplied the river Jordan. The pre-Hellenic deities have been associated with the site are Ba'al-gad or Ba'al-hermon.

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Location: upper Galilee ,foot of Mt Hermon Israel
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