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plants, with a similar appearance as satyrs. The Greek satyrs had animal
ears, horns, the tail of a horse and a hairy body. Like and they
were often depicted in an ityphallic form. The chief of satyrs was Silenus, a
minor forest deity, with the ears, the taU and of a horse. and
satyrs to the retinue of Dionysus.
powers associated with their dark, demonic aspect -
with their wild cries and night They steal and
from shepherds and frighten the peasants. Satyrs were also called fauns,
the name derived from the Roman Faunus, patron of shepherds and
woodlands. from his benevolent and Faunus
was also malicious and just like the Greek satyrs. His consort was
the Fauna, worshipped by women as the Great Goddess. Their
offspring were the Fatui, spirits of fields and woods that haunted human
dreams - either future events or evoking ghoulish
Also in we encounter the equivalent of Pan: the
Min was presented in an ityphallic form, which points at his function of the
of and sexuality. At the same time he was the of food
and all herbs. In Egypt, however, there was also another
ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, observes:
"The Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the
twelve gods. Now in their painting and sculpture, the of Pan is made with
the head and the of a as among the not he is to be in
fact or unlike other but why him so, I have no wish to
say. The Mendesians consider all goats the male even more than the female,
and goatherds are held in estimation: one he-goat is most sacred of when
he dies, it is ordained that there should be great mourning in all the Mendesian
district. In the Mendes is the name both for the and for
Pan."67
Pan was also included in the group of Dionysus' companions along with
the the the and the maenads. Sometimes he was
sexuality.
the of nature, and
All depictions of Pan and similar deities were horned, or at least connected
with the animal - the symbol of wild, untamed nature. In ancient
times horns virility and strength. They were the attribute of
warriors and in some cultures they were placed on OrIot nh