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Keywords: Satyr, Goat, Deity, Horns, Woodland
A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
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The Roman version of a Satyr, who according to Greel legend was a creature whose bottom half was that of an animal, usually a goat, and whose top half was that of a man.
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ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
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a hybrid, a man-goat with a human trunk plus the hindquarters, ears and horns of a goat
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a magical woodland creature from Roman mythology
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an ancient Italian deity who was a patron of fields and herds
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a woodland deity, rather like the Greek woodland god known as a satyr
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A follower of the god Pan, renowned for dancing and merrymaking.
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going back to the old Roman nature god Faunus and the Greek satyrs, fauns in Roman mythology are voluptuous forest daemons with horns and cloven feet. [ Music in Mirabell; In an Old Garden; Bequest: The Dream of an Afternoon; Luminous Hour; Fairy Tale; Western Dusk; Colorful Autumn
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