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Faunus
Ancient Italian rural deity, the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Pan. The grandson of Saturn, he was depicted as half-man, half-goat, like a satyr. He was first worshiped as a god who bestowed fertility on fields and flocks, but he ended as a woodland deity. His companions were known as fauns.
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Faunus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...held in February, is also generally believed to have been in honor of him. He was attended by fauns—mischievous and sportive creatures, half man and half goat, similar to satyrs. The female counterpart of Faunus was Bona Dea, also called Fauna.
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Faunus
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
Faunus •pandanus • badness , madness, sadness •Magnus • aptness • fatness , patness •...Delphinus, echinus, Linus, Longinus, minus, Plotinus, sinus, vinous •oddness • wanness • hotness • Faunus , rawness •Kaunas • bonus , Cronus, ...
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Faunus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Faunus in Roman mythology, an ancient Italian pastoral god, grandson of Saturn, associated with wooded places.
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Pan
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Greek fertility deity with a half-human, half-animal form. The Romans associated him with Faunus . Pan was usually said to be the son of Hermes . He was often represented as a vigorous and lustful figure with the horns, legs...
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Evander
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, in Greek religion, a minor deity worshiped in Arcadia in connection with Pan. In Roman religion, he was said to have introduced the worship of Faunus and to have founded the festival of Lupercalia . In Vergil's Aeneid, Evander shows Aeneas the site on which Rome will be built.
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