But in the end, the faun was altered into a goat-faced creature almost completely made out of earth, moss, vines, and tree bark.
The adjective "ficarius" characterizes the figgy fauns and their counterparts the "dusii" by their swarming, serial acts of fertilization.
Roman poets often conflated them with the fauns.
Actually moss and lichen alike know that, identifying with time itself, they have become faun and putto alike.
The animators found it easier to create entirely digital centaurs and fauns, rather than mix digital legs with real actors.
The faun and senior nymph wore golden sandals, the rest had bare white feet with rouged toes.
The woodwind brings in staccato chords as the three nymphs return from left and challenge the faun, who falls back from their advance.
The style of the ballet, in which a young faun meets several nymphs, flirts with them and chases them, was deliberately archaic.
