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Silvanus
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E.M. Berens
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
1880
Italy
Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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Silvanus
Silvanus was a woodland divinity, who, like Faunus, greatly resembled the Greek Pan. He was the presiding deity of plantations and forests, and specially protected the boundaries of fields.
Silvanus is represented as a hale old man, carrying a cypress-tree, for, according to Roman mythology, the transformation of the youth Cyparissus into the tree which bears his name was attributed to him.
His sacrifices consisted of milk, meat, wine, grapes, wheat-ears, and pigs.
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