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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 .
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Fauna comes from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns.All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and panis is the Modern Greek equivalent of fauna (πανίς or rather πανίδα).
In The Goddess Within, a visionary fiction novel written by Iva Kenaz, the main heroine falls in love with a faun. In the Spyro video game series, Elora is a faun from Avalar, who helps Spyro the dragon navigate the world around him. In Carnival Row, fauns or 'pucks' are one of the mythical creatures that are part of the series.
This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity. In case of computing mascots, they either represent software, hardware, or any project or collective entity behind them.
Steve is a player character from the 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft.Created by Swedish video game developer Markus "Notch" Persson and introduced in the original 2009 Java-based version, Steve is the first and the original default skin available for players of contemporary versions of Minecraft.
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.