Fauns

thumb|A faun, as painted by Hungary|Hungarian painter [[Pál Szinyei Merse in 1867]] thumb|upright|A drawing of a Faun. The faun (, ; , ) is a half-human and half-goat mythological creature appearing in Greek and Roman mythology.

thumb|200px|Faunus and Daphnis practising the [[Pan flute (Roman copy of Greek original).]] In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan, after which Romans depicted him as a horned god.

mythical figure common in western European legend

Roman goddess; either the wife, sister, or daughter of Faunus

Roman domus in Pompeii, perhaps the largest in the city at the time of its destruction

legendary creature

In ancient Roman religion, Inuus () was a god, or aspect of a god, who embodied sexual intercourse. The evidence for him as a distinct entity is scant. Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote that Inuus is an epithet of Faunus (Greek Pan), named from his habit of intercourse with animals, based on the etymology of ineundum, "a going in, penetration," from inire, "to enter" in the sexual sense. Other names for the god were Fatuus and Fatuclus (with a short a).