View Full Version : What do you call a half man and half goat in mythological times?
 
 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'.