Silvanus Roman An ancient god of northern Italy and then of the Romans.
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Silvanus Roman An ancient god of northern Italy and then of the Romans. Silvanus was, in his earliest form, a god of uncultivated lands, of forests and woods, fields and flocks. People believed that he either lived among the mysterious forces of these places or was himself one of those mysterious forces. Later, people came to worship Silvanus as a god of agriculture, a rural god. Artists portrayed him as a peasant or a man of the country. Silvanus was often worshiped with Faunus, another Roman god of rural life, who was seen as a protector of farmers and shepherds. As the Romans adopted many of the stories of the gods of classical Greece (see Hellenization), the characteristics of Silvanaus and Faunus merged with those of Pan, the god of fields and forests whom artists portrayed as half man, half goat.
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