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Nymph and Faun (cast in lead) in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Romans believed fauns stirred fear in men traveling in lonely, faraway or wild places. They were also capable of guiding men in need, as in the fable of The Satyr and the Traveller, in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word Faunus.
A faun is a half-human, half-goat creature in Roman mythology. Faun may also refer to: Tadano Faun GmbH, a German engineering firm; Faun (band), a German pagan folk / medieval band; Faunis, a genus of Asian butterflies commonly referred to as the fauns; Faun, a Hungarian silent film directed by Alexander Korda; The Faun, a sculpture
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).
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 of rustic places, lesser versions of their chief, the god Faunus.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Faunis canens, the common faun, is a butterfly from South and South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies. [1] This species may include the Indian faun, Faunis arcesilaus .
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Ördög is often thought to look somewhat like a satyr or faun, a humanoid with the upper torso of a human male and lower portions of a goat; usually pitch-black, with cloven hooves, ram-like horns, a long tail ending in a blade; and he carries a pitchfork. [3] He can also be distinguished by his overly large phallus. [4]