Brunnen am Sternplatz Faun - Wurzburg, Germany
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N 49° 47.589 E 009° 55.803
32U E 566939 N 5516047
Bronze faun that is part of the Star Place Fountain in the old town.
Waymark Code: WMHCNN
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 06/24/2013
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The fountain incorporates fish on their tails with water spurting from their mouth, a nymph with apple in hand sitting upright on the edge of the fountain looking at this faun. The faun is bent over the edge of the fountain, it rear and head elevated. Water streams from its mouth.
The faun is a rustic forest god or goddess (genii) of Roman mythology often associated with enchanted woods and the Greek god Pan and his satyrs.
The faun is a half human–half goat (from the head to the waist being human, but with the addition of goat horns) manifestation of forest and animal spirits that would help or hinder humans at whim. Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places. They were also capable of guiding humans in need, as in the fable of The Satyr and the Traveller, in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word Faunus. Fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures: whereas fauns are half-man and half-goat, satyrs originally were depicted as stocky, hairy, ugly dwarfs or woodwoses with the ears and tails of horses or asses. Satyrs also were more woman-loving than fauns, and fauns were rather foolish where satyrs had more knowledge.
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