Satyrs – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
satyr
n.
faun, one of many minor woodland gods depicted as half man and half horse or goat, attendant of the god Dionysus (Greek Mythology); lecherous man, man with uncontrollable sexual desires
Satyr
In
Greek mythology, a
satyr (, ;
satyros, ) is one of a troop of
ithyphallic male companions of
Dionysus with
horse-like (equine) features, including a horse-tail, horse-like ears, and sometimes a horse-like phallus because of permanent erection. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but in 6th-century BC
black-figure pottery human legs are the most common. In Roman Mythology there is a concept similar to satyrs, with
goat-like features: the
faun, being half-man, half-goat. Greek-speaking Romans often used the Greek term
saturos when referring to the Latin
faunus, and eventually syncretized the two. The female "
Satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing.
satyr
Noun
1. man with strong sexual desires
(synonym) lecher, lech, letch
(hypernym) pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
2. one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
(synonym) forest god
(hypernym) Greek deity
(hyponym) Silenus
Satyrs
[Greek] In Greek mythology the satyrs are deities of the woods and mountains. They are half human and half beast; they usually have a goat's tail, flanks and hooves. While the upper part of the body is that of a human, they also have the horns of a goat. They are the companions of Dionysus, the god of wine, and they spent their time drinking, dancing, and chasing nymphs. The Italian version of the satyr is the faun, while the Slavic version is the Ljeschi.
Satyrs
Satyrs [from Greek satyroi] The luxuriant psychovital powers of nature, associated with Dionysos or Pan. They were represented in mythology as having bristly hair, snub nose, pointed ears, incipient horns, a tail; when they became confused with the Latin fauns they acquired goat's horns and hoofs. They loved the music of the pipes, dance, song, and wine; and like Puck and nature spirits of Western Europe, they were elfish and given to pranks.
The satyrs of tradition represent historically an extinct race of quasi-animal men. The third root-race united themselves with animal beings, thus producing those creatures with which the late Lemurians and early Atlanteans again mated, this unnatural union producing the anthropoids; but the first miscegenation was between races to which the names human and animal did not imply so marked a distinction as they do now, and the union was fertile and not so unnatural as it would be today. The Nephilim (giants) of Genesis 6:4 were late second and third root-race human protoplasts, and vague recollections of the former existence of these mindless races brought about their identification by the early Hebrews with the satyrs. It seems likely that the apparition of nature spirits to country people would be connected by them with the tradition of satyrs; and actual beings of this kind, though extinct as a physical race, persist in astral form.
