Faun

Fauns are a liminal species originating from Greek and Roman mythology, in which they are portrayed as playful creatures of the woods, with the upper body of a human and the lower body of goat, as well as goatish ears and horns.
==In the Mythos==
Fauns and Satyrs are associates of the god Pan and the rest of the Greek pantheon. When Hermes appeared to a young woman named Marcia to tell her of the incoming return of the Greek deities, he mentioned that Pan is currently sleeping, but "wishful to wake and behold about him the little rose-crowned fauns and the antique Satyrs". Later, Zeus himself tells Marcia that when the gods return, "Fauns and Dryads shall haunt their accustomed groves in beauty". (: "Poetry and the Gods")
In ancient Arcadia, the sculptor Kalos would often spend the nights in the woods of Mount Maenalus conversing with Fauns and Dryads, which provided inspiration for his art. (: "The Tree")
Prior to his correspondence with Henry Wentworth Akeley, the folklorist Albert Wilmarth dismissed reports about alien creatures in the Vermont woods as being comparable to "those universal legends of natural personification which filled the ancient world with fauns and dryads and satyrs, suggested the kallikanzarai of modern Greece, and gave to wild Wales and Ireland their dark hints of strange, small, and terrible hidden races of troglodytes and burrowers". (: The Whisperer in Darkness)
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