For the young deer, fawn, see
deer. For other uses, see
faun (disambiguation). In
Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (
genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek
satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Bacchus (
Greek 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 goddess
Bona Dea, who, like the fauns, were goat-people.
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