satyr
A manikin with hooked snout, horned forehead, and extremities like goats' feet, encountered by Anthony in the desert. This creature was peaceful and offered fruits to Anthony. The satyr identified himself as a mortal being and inhabitant of the desert whom Gentiles worship under the names of Fauns, Satyrs, and Incubi, and claimed to represent his tribe in asking Anthony to entreat favor from Christ.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from the Archaic period through the Roman era.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Atargatis, Dionysus, Crow, Apis, Dagon, Mnevis, White Elephant, Ljesche, Bijagos, Pegasus, Aralez, Cernunnos, Fairy, Hathor, Horned God, Jackalope, Silenos, Fauns, Marsyas, Endymion, Pan, Silenus, genius loci, Bacchus, Victory, Hercules, Ariadne, child-Pan, centaur, angels, Bat, seraph, Satyrus, Diana
- allied with
- Dionysus
- serves
- Dionysus, Artemis (Diana)
- child of
- Silenus
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Anthony found next the satyr, 'a manikin with hooked snout, horned forehead, and extremities like goats' feet.' This creature was peaceful and offered him fruits, and when Anthony asked who he was, the satyr replied, 'I'm a mortal being'”
#1525 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In Greek mythology, a satyr (Ancient Greek: σάτυρος, romanized: sátyros, pronounced [sátyros]), also known as a silenus or silenos (Ancient Greek: σειληνός, romanized: seilēnós [seːlɛːnós]), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse”
#7386 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“satyr approaching a Bacchante before a garlanded altar”
#45919 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free