This god was the son of the nymph Canens and Picus, who was transformed into a woodpecker. During the secret rites of Bona Dea, the words "wine" and "myrtle" could not be spoken because this father of Bona Dea once got her drunk on wine, then beat her with a myrtle stick. By
This god was the son of the nymph Canens and Picus, who was transformed into a woodpecker. During the secret rites of Bona Dea, the words "wine" and "myrtle" could not be spoken because this father of Bona Dea once got her drunk on wine, then beat her with a myrtle stick. By some accounts, he was a king of Latium who sacrificed strangers at the altar of Hermes, but was killed by Heracles, who then begot Latinus on this character's widow or daughter. According to Ovid, he was the father of Acis. As a fertility god, he was associated with the festival of Lupercalia. FTP, name this Roman equivalent of Pan with a name similar to that of the creatures who accompanied him, the Roman analogue of satyrs.
This god was the son of the nymph Canens and Picus, who was transformed into a woodpecker.
Faunus (accept Fatuus)