Talk:Faunus Civil Rights Protest/@comment-130.18.210.248-20130818183008/@comment-23784953-20130820021547

I'll make an addendum on this.

Faunus cannot be a typo, since it's the name of the Roman horned god of the forest, plains and trees.

And Fauna is his wife. or his sister, or even his daughter depending on interpretations and is generally regarded as the female counterpart of Faunus.

Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar and writer once said something though, regarding Faunus and Fauna.

"Fauni are gods of the Latins, so that there is both a male Faunus and a female Fauna; there is a tradition that they used to speak of (fari) future events in wooded places using the verses they call 'Saturnians', and thus they were called 'Fauni' from 'speaking' (fando)"

I'd say Fauni would be the best gender-neutral name to call the Faunas ?