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cenglebright
Jun 5, 2008, 03:05 PM
Please help not sure what it is called.

progunr
Jun 5, 2008, 03:08 PM
A Satyr, I believe is the name you are looking for?

margarita_momma
Jun 6, 2008, 02:35 PM
A Faun.

cenglebright
Jun 6, 2008, 02:51 PM
A Satyr, I believe is the name you are looking for?
Thanks you so much That is what I thought it was
There is another meaning
For the word Satyr.
You mention been here for 51 years
I remember the summer of "69" like yesterday!!
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Thanks again
Charlene

In Sorrow
Sep 7, 2008, 08:15 PM
Yes I believe the name you are looking for is Satyr or Centaur those were Creatures that were half animal and half human, also they had a hugh Sexual appatite and was known to Rape Women.

Alder
Sep 23, 2008, 08:50 PM
I loved the Faun in the movie "Pan's Labyrinth." That movie was so true to life...

Fr_Chuck
Sep 23, 2008, 09:06 PM
But why is it always the head and top 1/2 that is the man, why not the other way around sometimes

StraightTalk
Sep 23, 2008, 09:39 PM
but why is it always the head and top 1/2 that is the man, why not the other way around sometimes

Oh, not always, not always.

Here's one:
Top half = jackass
Bottom half = human

I believe this apparition is named Bush :D

StraightTalk
Sep 23, 2008, 09:51 PM
Satyrs spring from Greek mythology.
In their Grecian form, they had nothing to do with goats.
In fact, the Greeks portrayed them with a horse's tail :)
(Additionally, in Grecian art, the adult ones had beards and the senior citizens were bald and obese.)

It's the Romans who made them 'goat-like', as a point of similarity with Faunus, their own version of a perennially horny man-goat.

Strangely enough, although Latin mythology gives Satyrs the upper half of a man and the lower half of a goat, Roman artists planted goat's horns on the older satyrs' heads.

I guess that makes older satyrs 'goat-horned horny man-goats'.