Faunus
Faunus was the partner of Diana. Diana killed Faunus to be with a man named Felix. Diana was herself killed by her lover at the Lake of Diana.
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When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in the Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian romances.
Relationships
- consort of
- Diana
- co occurs with
- Janus, Venilia, Circe, Juno, Helernus, Carna, Februlis, Fluvonia, Janicot, Karnayna, Atho, Tubal-cain, Brân, Wayland, Herne, Dianus, Cern, Actaeon, Pashupati, Egeria, Vegoia, Viviane, Diana the Huntress Goddess, Silenus, Cernunnos
- has aspect
- Fauns
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The Post-Vulgate rewrite also describes how Diana had killed her partner Faunus to be with a man named Felix, but then she was herself killed by her lover at that lake, which came to be called the Lake of Diana (Lac Diane).”
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“Ancient Roman mythological belief included a god named Faunus often associated with bewitched woods, and conflated with the Greek god Pan and a goddess named Fauna who were goat people.”
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“They had one son, Faunus.”
#9033 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“This unity is underlined by the role of Faunus in the aetiologic story told by Ovid and the symbolic relevance of the Lupercal: asked by the Roman couples at her lucus how to overcome the sterility that ensued the abduction of the Sabine women, Juno answered through a murmuring of leaves "Italidas matres sacer hircus inito" "That a sacred ram cover the Italic mothers".”
#9759 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In the neopagan tradition of Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and loosely inspired by the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.”
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