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In the film series, fauns are distinct from satyrs, which are more goat-like in form. In Lolita, the protagonist is attracted to pubescent girls whom he dubs "nymphets"; "faunlets" are the male equivalent. In the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre, it is related how fauns befriend and take a mathematician to meet Pan.
Satyress is the female equivalent to satyrs. They are entirely an invention of post-Roman European artists, as the Greek satyrs were exclusively male and the closest there was to female counterparts were the nymphs , altogether different creatures who, however, were nature spirits or deities like the satyrs.
The female deity Bona Dea was often equated with Fauna. As Pan was accompanied by the Paniskoi , or little Pans, so the existence of many Fauni was assumed besides the chief Faunus. [ 2 ] Fauns are place-spirits ( genii ) of untamed woodland.
Varro explained the role of Faunus and Fauna as prophetic deities: Fauni are gods of the Latins, so that there is both a male Faunus and a female Fauna; there is a tradition that they used to speak of (fari) future events in wooded places using the verses they call 'Saturnians', and thus they were called 'Fauni' from 'speaking' (fando).
The Pastoral Symphony section of Disney's Fantasia features baby Satyrs, sometimes called Fauns. In Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth, a young girl encounters a faun at the entrance to a magical kingdom. He gives her three challenges to determine if she is the long-lost princess of the Underworld.
Articles relating to fauns and their depictions. They were half- human and half- goat mythological creatures, appearing in Greek and Roman mythology . Originally fauns of Roman mythology were spirits ( genii ) of rustic places, lesser versions of their chief, the god Faunus .
Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek – The crocodile-headed Egyptian God.
Faunis eumeus, the large faun, [1] is a butterfly found in South and South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family. The assama subspecies of the large faun is now considered to be a separate species, Faunis assama ( Westwood , 1858).