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Pan - Faunus

Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs .He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens and often affiliated with sex; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The word panic ultimately derives from the god's name. In Roman religion and myth, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea , sometimes identified as Fauna.

Satyr is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.

Pan - Faunus Stamp Collection

Greece 1958 Pan and a pine tree

The goat-legged god Pan pursues the nymph Pitys. She is depicted half-transformed into a pine tree with her feet forming the trunk and her hands the branches.

Cuba 1990 The flute of Pan by A. G. Menocal, Cuban painter,(1863-1942)

France 1998 The God Pan - C.E.P.T.- June 21 - Music Festival

Paraguay 1973 Pan and syrinx by Jabob Jordaens (1593-1678) Royal Museums of Fine Art Belgium

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Paraguay 1978 Pan and syrinx by Albrecht Durer (1505) which is also called - Satyr Family - Birth of Adonis

Syrinx was a beautiful naiad nymph, who was observed by the god Pan as she played by the banks of the River Ladon.
Pan chased after Syrinx, but keen to maintain her chastity, Syrinx prayed to her father, who transformed her into river reeds. thwarted, Pan cut down some of the reeds, and created his pan-pipes, the syrinx.

ALBANIA 1987 Pan, Bronze Statue (3rd-2nd cent. B.C.), Byllis

Dhufar (Oman) 1974 Pan and syrinx by Francois Boucher

Greece 1953 Satyr with grapes for Greek National Products

Yoguslavia 1971 Satyr, bronze statue, 2 cent BC.

The original statue

Ajman 1972 Satyr at villa mysteries in Pompei. Wall painting.

Ajman 1972 Satyr with a girl from Pompei. Wall painting.

Ajman 1972 Satyr playing the flute from Pompei . Wall painting.

Czechoslovakia 1976 Faun and Satyr, sculptured panel, 16th century, Prague Castle .

The accurate painting

It illustrates a story from Metamorphoses, the epic poem by the Roman poet Ovid. The wood nymph Syrinx is chased by the god Pan to the river Ladon, where she begs one of the river nymphs to disguise her by changing her shape. The river nymph, with her back towards us, obliges by transforming Syrinx into reeds.

Boucher uses fluid brushstrokes to create a surface that has an almost jewel-like brilliance. The blues and greens complement the fleshy pinks of the women, who seem to glow against their dark surroundings. The painting’s mix of hedonism, overt eroticism and ambiguous sexuality may have particularly appealed to the libertine tastes of the royal court before the arrival of a more moralising tone in both art and art criticism in the 1760s.

Cyprus 1964 Satyr drinking wine, bronze statue, 4-5 cent BC

Ajman 1972 Dancing Faun, bronze statue, from Pompei. National museum of Napoli.

Roman copy. This faun was dug up in Pompeii in 1830 and acquired its fame almost instantly. Its findspot was named after it — the House of the Faun.

Its completeness, small size, and the rarity of surviving bronzes made it a favourite subject for reproduction in the modest gardens and interiors of aspiring aesthetes. Another feature attractive to the refined tastes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was that the faun seemed to be joyous rather than drunk