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List of Gods : "God Faunus" - 4 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "Faun"	Roman	Place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, 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. Roman
Goddess name "Fauna"	Roman	Minor vegetation goddess. Consort of FAUNUS with guardianship of woods and plants....
God name "Faunus"	Roman	Minor vegetation god. Consort of FAUNA with guardianship of woods and plants. He was given many of the attributes of the Greek god PAN including horns and legs of a goat....
God name "Inuus"	Roman	An ancient protector of livestock, one of the di indigetes, indigenous gods. He was probably a god of fertility or sexual intercourse, as his name was thought by some to be connected with the word inire, "to copulate". He was also sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus. Roman

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