Fauns
Inhabitants of the desert whom the Gentiles worship, deluded by various forms of error. According to the satyr encountered by Anthony, Fauns are among the names under which his tribe is worshipped.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Roman nature spirits.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Atargatis, Dionysus, Crow, Silenus, Apis, Dagon, Mnevis, White Elephant, Ljesche, Bijagos, Marsyas, Fauna, Pan, nymphs, Muses, Meliboeus, Ether, Dryads, Naiads, Adonis, Silvanus, Napaean Nymphs, Pales, centaur, Apollo, Venus
- aspect of
- Faunus
- served by
- Silenus
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“I'm a mortal being and one of those inhabitants of the desert whom the Gentiles, deluded by various forms of error, worship under the names of Fauns, Satyrs, and Incubi.”
#1526 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Romans identified satyrs with their native nature spirits, fauns. Eventually the distinction between the two was lost entirely.”
#7390 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“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. Fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatur”
#8373 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In case Donace thinks that it is shameful that he is a rustic oxherd, he points out that gods such as Apollo, Pan, Fauns and Adonis feed herds of cattle.”
#40813 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001