roman) – Roman god of forests and fields, patron of wild animals, herds and shepherds. He was considered the grandson of Saturn, the son of Picus and Pomona, and the father of Latinus. According to legend, F. teases and frightens travelers in the forest, steals children, sends illnesses and nightmares, and has relationships with women and animals. Like his father Piku, F. has a prophetic gift. People who wanted to know the future slept in F.'s sanctuaries on the skin of a sacrificed sheep and received predictions in a dream (the custom of incubation). In honor of F., the feast of faunalia (December) and Lupercalia (February 15) was celebrated - as F. Luperk, protector of herds from wolves. During Lupercalia, F. sacrificed goats and dogs, and made libations of wine and milk. After the sacrifice, the priests ran around the Palatine Hill and lashed the women they met with belts made from the skin of a sacrificial goat (it was believed that this would cure infertility). The belts of the Luperc priests were called februa, hence the name of the month - February. F. was depicted with goat-like features - goat hooves, pointed ears, small horns, with a body partially covered with hair - or simply a handsome young man, often dancing or holding a cup of wine in his hand. There were also ideas about the existence of many fauns, like satyrs or sileni.

Faun (wiki) - a kind, merciful god (from lat. favere — be supportive, this is where the names come from Faustus, Faustulus, Favonius Faust, you got it, right?
In the image of Faun, the ancient Italians revered the good demon of mountains, meadows, fields, caves, herds, who sends fertility to fields, animals and people, the prophetic god, the ancient king of Latium and the ancestor of many ancient families, the planter of the original culture.

For me, a faun is, first of all, sex. It’s not that I like men with oversized upper shoulders (that’s how they’re usually portrayed).

But something unimaginably courageous is hidden in him for me. I think it's all about the hooves and that relentless fur below the waist. Women have their own associations with hooves (“all men are goats” or centaurs, according to our improved version))).
The Faun is often depicted engaging in frivolous activities.

He endlessly spies on bathers, for example.


Pesters mermaids.

Moreover, he knows how to magically separate her tail, apparently for his own voluptuous purposes.
Faun (wiki), like a forest god, lives in thickets, secluded caves or near noisy springs, where he predicts the future, catches birds and pursues nymphs. These are, for example, nymphs.


Fauns, along with satyrs, dryads, silenae, nymphs and other similar creatures, wander through the forests all day long and organize merry round dances, games and dances. Sometimes they like to play pranks - kidnapping children, sending nightmares to people. He instills the so-called “panic fear” both in travelers and sometimes during war and in enemies.


(Still from my favorite movie "Pan's Labyrinth" by Guillermo del Toro.)
Appearing to a person in a dream, the Faun often torments him with a nightmare: special roots and ointments were used against this, especially forest peony root. Fauns were especially careful of women, whom God pursued with his love, hence his epithet - “Incubus”.

Apparently, due to an overabundance of hormones, fauns are prone to melancholy and playing the sniffle. The sounds of a faun flute lulled travelers to sleep.

Or this is a classic trick of a man who should be pitied)

And these eyes are not only pitying, you want to drown in them:


Absolutely magical, bewitching emptiness or, conversely, the depth of the eyes of Pan (the Greek name for a faun) in Vrubel. I stood in front of him for 40 minutes in the Tretyakov Gallery in the full feeling of a whirlpool that was sucking me in sweetly and irrevocably, my husband barely pulled it out, I was impressed for a long time. They say that the impetus for its creation was the reading of Anatole France’s story “Saint Satyr”. And the artist first called his painting “Satyr”. Wikipedia asks not to confuse a faun and a satyr; satyrs were depicted with long ponytails.

Although Barberini's "Faun" is also called "Drunken Satyr"

Apparently, with a certain amount of drinking, the faun's hooves turn into completely human feet and the characteristic hairiness disappears somewhere.
The mythology of fauns is widely used in park sculptures, interior figurines,

inspires designers to create certain images.


As for me, they are good and exciting in any incarnation)))

Mythological creatures of the peoples of the world [Magical properties and possibilities of interaction] Conway Dinna J.

6. Satyrs and fauns

6. Satyrs and fauns

Despite the fact that many do not see the difference between fauns and satyrs, the temperament of representatives of these two types of creatures and the legends about them have huge differences. Satyrs, even more than centaurs, symbolize the predominance of a person’s sexual desire over his intellect. People often talk about feeling love when what they really mean is desire. We allow our hormones to drag us into relationships that would have been better avoided, and when intelligence eventually takes over, which usually happens after we have been taken advantage of in some way, we become embarrassed at our own stupidity.

Fauns, on the contrary, personify a normal attitude towards sexual emotions, which are influenced by both hormones and intellect. In this case, a person does not rush recklessly into a new relationship, but gives it time for natural development, and sex, instead of being the only connecting link, becomes an addition to a strong friendship.

In Greek mythology, satyrs were horned deities of the wild who followed the gods Pan, Dionysus and Bacchus. They had the body, arms and genitals of a man, as well as slanted eyes, flattened noses, pointed ears, legs with cloven hooves, small horns and the tail of a goat. Their bodies were mostly covered with coarse, curly hair, and their faces, with flat or upturned noses and low foreheads, were more simian than human. They liked music, dancing, mortal women, forest nymphs and wine. It was believed that they maintained their species by raping forest nymphs. This danger did not threaten the water nymphs, since satyrs were afraid of water. They were very malicious pranksters, scattering herds of sheep and frightening lonely travelers, and also took pleasure in drunken vandalism, which was often attributed to people.

Hesiod wrote that satyrs were basically lazy, useless creatures who did only what gave them pleasure. Some myths claim that satyrs were brothers of forest nymphs and curetes. The ancient Greek poet Nonnus wrote that satyrs were relatives of centaurs.

Satyrs most often lived in the thickets of forests, where they liked to dance to the music of their flutes, called syrinxes. Their special dance was known as "sikinnis", and to perform it required the agility of goats.

Like the god Dionysus, the image of satyrs was associated with an ivy crown, thyrsos (rod), grapes, cornucopia and snakes. In his underground aspect, Dionysus was known as Melanaigis (a name that refers to the fact that he wore a black goatskin) and blew a trumpet horn. This hypostasis of Dionysus was worshiped during the oldest Athenian religious festival, Apaturia (“Feast of Universal Kinship”). Maenads, mortal women who took part in orgies dedicated to Dionysus, voluntarily gave themselves to satyrs.

In Roman mythology, satyrs were sometimes depicted with goat legs, in other cases they were young men who accompanied Bacchus. In human form, they had pointed ears and small horns on their heads, they were dressed in panther skin, and they held flutes in their hands. Roman satyrs were considered kinder and less aggressive in imposing their sexual desires on women.

Roman silens were similar in temperament to satyrs, but differed in appearance - they were young men with horse ears and tails. ( Cm. chapter 5.)

Written evidence of how people managed to see satyrs is very rare. Saint Jerome wrote that one satyr was caught alive during the reign of Emperor Constantine. He looked like a man, but he had goat horns and legs. He was put on display for people to see until he died; the creature was then placed in salt to better preserve it and delivered to Emperor Constantine so that he would have evidence of the existence of satyrs.

The medieval writer Androvand claimed that many satyrs lived in Ireland.

: a person whose existence consists of parties, fun, sex and alcohol. One who will force his sexual advances on another. This category includes rapists, as well as those who stalk children and adolescents.

Magic properties: The sphere of activity of satyrs is music, dancing, making love. They tame lustful and unbridled emotions. They help you learn how to deal with unpleasant, sex-crazed people. When calling satyrs, avoid the use of drugs, alcohol and other stimulants.

In Roman mythology, another, kinder type of satyr, called a faun, was also known. According to a later description, these forest spirits were half-human, half-goat, with curved ram horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.

However, in earlier descriptions they are presented as creatures with the legs, tail and ears of a deer, and the body and face of a young man. The torso and arms were hairless, and the legs were covered with smooth hair. Companions of the god Faunus (wife of the goddess Fauna), fauns lived in wild forests. These gentle creatures lured people to their forest feasts, rather than chasing them like satyrs. It was common to see a group of nymphs and fauns dancing together. The music played by the fauns sometimes lured women out of their homes at night and forced them to dance naked in the moonlight.

Faunus, also known as Lupercus, was the Italic god of the countryside. The Romans identified him with the Greek god Pan, but in fact Faunus was very different from him. He invented the shoume, a musical wind instrument like the oboe, and the fauns played it masterfully. Faunus, whom some sources called the grandson of Saturn, others - the descendant of Mars, was considered the god of predictions. The island of Capri was once dedicated to this god.

The native Italic forest god Silvanus was popular in Roman Britain. He was sometimes called Callirius (King of the Forests). In Britain, he was depicted with hammers, pots and pruners in his hands, the tool of a real forester. He was associated with deer.

A similar woodland deity, the Wild Shepherd, appears frequently in Welsh myths such as Cilwch and Olwen and the Lady of Fontaine. In these legends he is described as a black giant with a huge club. He is the guardian of forest animals, primeval forests and a wise advisor. One of his early Celtic names was Cernunnos (Horned One).

Psychological characteristics: positive– love for nature and everything connected with it. Negative– pleasure from the horror of others; notice that he considers his sexual partners.

Magic properties: the element of fauns is agriculture, herds, bees, fishing, gardens and front gardens, animals, fertility, nature, forests, music, dance, medicine, predictions. Fauns are characterized by gentleness in relationships.

English puka and puck

The English pooka was a woodland humanoid creature belonging to the realm of fairies. The name "pook" is derived from the English words spook - ghost and Puck. “Lead by a pooka” was a commonly used expression meaning a person who had gone astray, having been led astray by a pooka. Although the English pooka is naughty, he is not slutty.

In Britain itself, this creature became known as the puck, a forest creature that caused various troubles. Puck was a harmless elf, from his name the English word puckish was formed, which translated means “mischievous, mischievous.” Eito claims that the pack's name and character were later given to Robin Goodfellow. Puck, who had the ability to transform, liked to help people if they appreciated and recognized his existence. However, the Pak did not like those who mocked their lovers, and often even punished them.

Puck, who looked like a pixie with his pointy ears, liked to wear a green bodysuit. He was friends with all the fairies and on moonlit nights he played a flute made from a willow twig, and the fairies danced to his music. Unlike Pan, who patronized domestic animals, Pak protected foxes, hares, squirrels and other wild animals. However, Pak also paid attention to and helped all the plants and animals inhabiting forests and fields.

The Welsh puka is an analogue of the English pucka. Kum puka is considered one of his favorite places. Welsh Pookas are ugly, grumpy and often quarrel among themselves. Unlike other pukas, the Welsh representatives of these creatures enter people's homes through the chimney. The Welsh claim that Shakespeare created the image of the puka based on their puka.

In Scandinavian and Germanic countries, pukas are known as Kornbock; They are thought to have the body of a goat and may resemble fauns in appearance. They help grow grains and corn, but if they have the opportunity to spoil or steal the crop, they will not fail to take advantage of it. In Old German, the puck is known as putz, or butz, and in Iceland it is called pukki and is considered an evil spirit.

Cornbock (puka)

Psychological characteristics: positive- a creature with a distorted but harmless sense of humor; one who feels a special closeness to the earth and its creatures. Negative– someone who likes to play pranks on others, but avoids responsibility if something does not go as planned.

Magic properties: Paka symbols are flute, wild animals, dancing and music. Punishes those who abandoned their beloved. Call on the pack to learn a subtle sense of humor. Mischievous, but always ready to help.

Jack in green

In England, another species of creatures known as Green Men also lived in the countryside. These fairy-like creatures had a green human body and wore revealing outfits made of leaves. Green people, harmless to everyone except lumberjacks and rangers, looked after the trees in the dense forests. Ordinary people rarely saw the Green People.

Another type of Green Man was the Celtic Cernunnos, god of forests, animals and fertility. In Old Welsh his name was Arddu (Dark), Ato or Horned God.

Jack in Green is a British forest spirit known according to many legends. Like Woodwose, he was the guardian of coniferous and deciduous forests. He was often depicted on church ceiling carvings looking through leaves.

Scotland and Cornwall were inhabited by short, thin male creatures known as Brown Men or Swamp People. They had copper-colored hair and clothing made from the brown leaves of swamp plants, allowing them to be invisible. Although they are calm around people, they try to avoid them whenever possible. Their task is to protect and feed the animals living in the swamps.

In Germany and some areas of Scandinavia, there lived Oak People who guarded sacred oak groves. Although they are not friendly towards humans, they do not try to harm them.

Psychological characteristics: positive– someone who feels the need to protect forests. Negative– a fanatical defender of forests, even at the expense of people.

Magic properties: protects forests and trees, especially oaks; protects wild animals.

The Greeks called Pan the "Little God", the Horned God of Nature, the God with Goat Legs. Arcadia is considered its place of origin. Pan often accompanied Dionysus. Perhaps the word panoply, meaning lavish religious ceremonies, is derived from his name.

Pan was one of the oldest Greek deities and the positive life force of the world. He had a human body and head, hands with hooves, legs, small horns and long ears of a large goat. He played pleasant, attractive melodies on his pipe. However, he was aware of the power of magical words, and with the help of his voice he misled or controlled people. According to myths, Pan entered into relations with all the maenads, as well as Athena, Penelope and Selene.

In his gentler form, Pan symbolized forests and wild creatures, healing, gardening, plants and animals, music and dancing, divination and lovemaking. Unlike satyrs, Pan helped shepherds and hunters if they did not offend him. However, he also had a dark side, and, being in this incarnation, he caused wild, causeless horror in people in secluded forest or mountainous areas. With his magic and terrible scream, he forced his enemies to scatter, filling their hearts with fear. The word “panic” came from this behavior. From his sacred drama of death and resurrection came the traditional Greek "tragedy" (Greek word tragoidos meant "goat song").

The Greeks associated the Egyptian god Amon-Ra with Pan and called his holy city of Khemmis Panopolis, “the city of Pan.” Ancient Greek writers claimed that Pan himself and many satyrs lived in Panopolis. In Roman art, satyrs were depicted with the same curved horizontal ram horns as this Egyptian god.

Psychological characteristics: positive – Pan is the personification of generative energies. Thus, a person with the traits of Pan will always use his strength and creative energy. Negative - a person who uses his energy to instill fear in others.

Magic properties: Pan symbols - music, magic words, forests and wild creatures, healing, gardening, herbs, dance, prophecies, physical intimacy. Pan helps overcome obstacles in relationships. Creates gratuitous horror - this is only true of alcohol abusers, rapists and murderers.

Scotland is home to strange little brownies known as Urisks. These lonely creatures were half-human, half-goat. They usually lived around abandoned ponds, but sometimes sought the company of people. Although one of their jokes was to follow travelers at night and frighten them, sometimes they moved to live closer to people's homes. Urisks were believed to bring good luck as they helped with farm work and herding cows. Usually the Urisks lived alone, but in some cases they gathered in groups. Although it is unclear on what occasions these meetings took place - most likely, the Urisks, like fairies and other earthly creatures, gathered on the days of the equinox, solstice and other four pagan holidays.

Psychological characteristics: positive– a person who has an amazing understanding with animals. Negative– someone who enjoys scaring others.

Magic properties: Brings great luck. Call Urisk, like Pan, when you need to heal animals and help in the garden.

It was sometimes claimed that the Slavic, or more precisely Russian, forest spirit known as the goblin resembled a satyr with a human body and goat horns, ears and legs. Perhaps this is one of the branches of the goblin species, since other representatives of this type of creature mainly inhabited water bodies and the areas adjacent to them. The wood goblins that inhabit forests are their guardians. They are most active in spring and summer at dusk and dawn. They never cause physical harm to people, but they like to lure and throw them into the thicket of the forest. The word “goblin” refers both to the Slavic Lord of the forests and to the many forest spirits that inhabit the forests of the Baltic states. Some of them are dangerous, evil creatures, while others are simply mischievous. People, however, can sense their presence as soon as these creatures approach. Foresters and those who know the forest well say that goblins are very thin creatures with blue skin, green hair and eyes.

Leshy prefer to live in the most remote parts of the forest. They do not tolerate intrusion into the territories they consider their kingdom, and try to lead travelers away. In winter, when the ground is covered with snow, the goblin covers its tracks so that the path is not visible. At other times of the year, they confuse travelers so much that they go deeper and deeper into the forest and become hopelessly lost.

Foresters claim that it is always possible to understand when a goblin is chasing a person: it seems that the trees are moving and surrounding the traveler, and there is a strange feeling that he is being watched. But no matter how quickly a person turns around, he will never be able to see the devil, because they move much faster than people. The only way to throw him off your scent is to put your shoes on the other foot and your clothes backwards. This seems to confuse the devil so much that his spell is broken and the man manages to escape.

Psychological Characteristics: A person who likes to intentionally or even subconsciously give others incorrect information, presenting it in the form of a joke. He also likes to give bad advice just to see how you will follow it and make your life difficult. Many of those who give this “bad advice” do so with ulterior motives: to gain control over you and watch you fail.

Magic properties: Helps protect forests and trees, but is dangerous to humans.

Another type of British forest creature was the Woodmen, or Wild Forest People. They were also called wuzer, or uzer. They inhabited and protected wild forests. Unlike the Green Man, who was covered in leaves, the Woodman was covered in hair or long fur and wore no clothing. There are several references to these creatures in the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, but there is very little information. In the Middle Ages, their images were often used in masks. In East Anglia they were especially common; carvings of woodmen can still be found in churches.

Psychological characteristics: positive- a person who can live in ordinary social conditions, but still, if necessary, he stands out from his environment. Negative– someone who withdraws from society, such as fanatical or extremist survivalists.

Magic properties: Heals and protects the wildest forests.

Faun Faun

(Fannus). Roman deity identified with the Greek Pan. He was considered the son of Picus and the grandson of Saturn, possessed the gift of prophecy, and was the patron god of agriculture and cattle breeding. Subsequently, they began to believe that there were many fauns, like Greek satyrs, and they talked about their closeness to nymphs. Lupercalia was celebrated in Rome in honor of Faun; The faun was called Lupercus as a guardian of flocks from wolves.

(Source: “A Brief Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities.” M. Korsh. St. Petersburg, edition by A. S. Suvorin, 1894.)

(Faunus, from favere, "to help", also Fatuus, Fatulcus, from fatuor, "to be possessed", fando, "to prophesy", Serv. Verg. Aen. VII 47), in Roman mythology the god of fields, forests, pastures, animals . There were ideas about both the plurality of F. and about one F., the female counterpart of which was Faun, Fatua, who was later considered his daughter and known as Bona dea(Serv. Verg. Aen. VII 47; VIII 314).
With the noise of the forest or in a dream, F. gave predictions composed of Saturnian verse (Dion. Halic. V 16). Numa caught by cunning along with Picom, F. was forced to reveal to him how to turn away the lightning of Jupiter (Ovid. Fast. Ill 291 next; Plut. Numa 15). F. was considered a crafty spirit who stole children and sent illnesses and nightmares (Serv. Verg. Aen. VI 775). How Inui or Incubus had intercourse with all animals and seduced women. The establishment of the cult of F., identified with the Arcadian Panom, was attributed Evandru(Serv. Verg. Georg. I 10). He departed in a grotto on the slope of the Palatine, called Lupercalium (from lupus, “wolf”) (Dion. Halic. I 31; Serv. Verg. Aen. VIII 345) and was served by a college of Luperci. On the holiday of Lupercalia (February 15), the Luperci brought F. a sacrifice - a dog and a goat. After the sacrifice, the Luperci, naked, with a goat skin on their hips, ran around the Palatine, lashing the women they met with belts cut from the skin of a sacrificial goat, which was supposed to make them fertile. Lupercalia was a pastoral festival of purification and fertility, aversion from herds of wolves, and may have once been associated with the cult of the wolf, who acted as the god Luperk and then merged with F. F. was especially revered by peasants as the patron of cattle breeding and rural life (Ovid. Fast. II 193; III 315). He was also considered one of the kings of Lawrence, the son of Picus, the father of Latinus (Serv. Verg. Aen. VIII 314).
E. M. Shtaerman.

(Source: “Myths of the Peoples of the World.”)

Faun was a kind, cheerful and active god of forests, groves and fields. He vigilantly guarded the shepherds' flocks from predators, for which the shepherds revered him under the name of the god Luperk (protector from wolves) (1) and sacrificed goats and goats to appease him. Every year on February 15, all of Rome celebrated the sacred Lupercalia, established, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus, who in infancy were fed by a she-wolf and themselves grew up among shepherds. The Sanctuary of Faun - Lupercal - was located near the grotto on the Palatine Hill, in which the infants Romulus and Remus were found by a shepherd. The celebration of Lupercalia began with the sacrifice of goats and goats, and two young men stood near the altar, to whose foreheads the Luperque priests touched a sacrificial knife covered in blood and immediately erased these bloody stripes with goat hair soaked in milk. At the same time, the young men had to laugh. Having completed the ritual of sacrifice and sacred feast, the priests, having cut loincloths - aprons and belts, which were called februa (2), from the skins of the sacrificed goats, ran out of Lupercal with shouts and noise and rushed around the Palatine Hill, striking everyone they encountered with belts. This was an ancient cleansing and atonement rite, and the Romans willingly exposed themselves to the blows of the sacred belts, as if removing from them all the filth that had accumulated over the year. Women who wanted to preserve marital happiness, peace in the family and increase their family, were sure to get hit by the goat belt and went out to meet the running Luperci. Loving and honoring the god Faun, who was disposed towards them, Roman farmers and shepherds also celebrated faunalia, which they celebrated on December 5 in the open air. The sacrifices, consisting of wine, milk and slaughtered goats, ended with a cheerful feast, in which the cheerful and kind Faun himself symbolically took part. On this day, cattle were allowed to roam the fields and forests without shepherds, arable animals rested, and slaves were allowed to have fun in the meadows and crossroads. Although Faun was a benevolent deity, sometimes he liked to have fun and scare a person who wandered into the depths of the forest and disturbed his peace. He loved to whisper all sorts of scary stories to those sleeping. To those to whom he was favorable, the Faun communicated his predictions with a special rustle of leaves. After all, Faun was the son of the god Peak and inherited the prophetic gift from him. If a person wanted to get an answer to the questions that tormented him, he had to, without fear, being in a sacred grove, lie down on the skin of a sacrificed sheep and receive the Faun’s prophecy in a dream. Silvan was very close to the god Faun, who was revered as the patron god of the forest. He, like the Faun, protected the herds grazing in the forests, and loved the simple shepherd's pipe. His constant companion was a dog - a faithful assistant to the shepherds. Silvan also had the gift of prophecy, and sometimes from the depths of the forest the loud and fear-inducing voice of a god would be heard, foreshadowing important events. Only men were allowed to participate in the festivities in honor of the god Silvanus. This was strictly prohibited for women. (1. “Wolf” in Latin is “lupus.”) (2. Hence the name of the month - february (February).)

(Source: “Legends and Tales of Ancient Rome.”)

in Roman mythology, the main god who protects flocks and shepherds. He vigilantly guarded the shepherds' flocks from predators, for which the shepherds revered him under the name of the god Luperk, which meant "protector from wolves." In his honor, every year on February 15 (this month is named after Faun), all of Rome celebrated the sacred Lupercalia. Faun's wife was the goddess of fertility of Faun's forests and fields. She was also often called the “Good Goddess.” She helped women without children to conceive babies, facilitated easy childbirth, and took care of the health of the mother and newborn.

(Source: “Dictionary of spirits and gods of German-Scandinavian, Egyptian, Greek, Irish, Japanese, Mayan and Aztec mythologies.”)

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National Museum.

Sculpture by J. F. J. Sali.
Marble.
175051.
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Cognac Museum.

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