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The '''Fauns''' come from [[Roman mythology]] and are similar to the [[satyr]]. They are the children of the god Faunus and were minor divinities to the Italians.
The '''Fauns''' come from [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]] and are similar to the [[satyr]]. They are the children of the god Faunus and were minor divinities to the Italians.




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==Origin==
==Origin==


In [[Roman mythology]], '''fauns''' are place-spirits (''genii'') of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek [[satyr]], wild and orgiastic drunken followers of [[Dionysus]].  
In [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], '''fauns''' are place-spirits (''genii'') of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek [[satyr]], wild and orgiastic drunken followers of [[Dionysus]].  


However, Fauns and [[satyr]]s were originally quite different creatures.  
However, Fauns and [[satyr]]s were originally quite different creatures.  

Revision as of 13:13, 23 July 2006

The Fauns come from Roman mythology and are similar to the satyr. They are the children of the god Faunus and were minor divinities to the Italians.


Description

They have the legs, hooves, horns of goat and the torso and head of a man.

Fauns are said to be the guardians of the woods and fields.


Origin

In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyr, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus.

However, Fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people.


Main Belief

Faunus reproduced himself in Fauns, half man half goat satyrs.

They were rural spirits who rejoiced in nature and the company of Nymphs. Thus Faunus personality was spread and increased.


Fauns representation in Art

  • The Barberini Faun Glyptothek is a Hellenistic marble, c. 200 BC that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian, Castel Sant'Angelo, and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, patron of Bernini who heavily restored and refinished it, so that its present 'Hellenistic baroque' aspect may be enhanced.


Fauns in Fiction

  • Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a faun named Mr. Tumnus is the first creature Lucy meets in Narnia [1]
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Marble Faun, 1860, a novel set in Rome [2]
  • Also noted as Phil from the Disney Movie Hercules


References

  • Comte, Fernand - The Wordsworth Dictionary of Mythology, Wordsworth Editions[3]
  • Ely, Talfourd – The Gods of Greece and Rome, Dover. [4]


See also


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