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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Faunus
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**Domain**: The wild, forests, fields, herds, fertility, prophecy
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**Symbol**: Horns, goat-legs, the woodland, the pipe
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**Greek Equivalent**: [Pan](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/pan)
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## Overview
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Faunus is the old Roman god of the untamed countryside — the forests and pastures, the herds that graze them, and the fertility that keeps both flock and field alive. He is a rustic power, half-wild, sometimes pictured with horns and the legs of a goat, and he belongs to the woods more than to any city temple. Farmers and shepherds knew him as a friend to the herd and a guardian of grazing land, but also as a presence that could unsettle a lonely traveller who wandered too far into the trees.
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His nature drew him early into the orbit of the Greek [Pan](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/pan), and the two were largely identified, so that Faunus took on Pan's goat-form and his association with panic and wild music. Yet Faunus kept a distinctly Roman office the Greek god never had: he was a prophetic voice of the woodland. Sleepers who lay down in his sacred groves received oracles in their dreams, and his warnings were said to sound out from the trees themselves — a disembodied voice in the forest, the *fauni voces*.
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## The Prophetic Voice
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Where other gods spoke through priests and formal oracles, Faunus spoke through the land. Roman writers record his voice issuing from the depths of a wood to warn of coming disaster, and his oracles came to those who slept on the fleece of a sacrificed sheep in his grove. This gift of woodland prophecy made him more than a mere shepherd's god: he was the countryside made articulate, the wild returning an answer to those who listened.
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## The Lupercalia
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The wild, fertile character of Faunus is bound up with the Lupercalia, the archaic February festival celebrated at the Lupercal cave below the Palatine. There the *Luperci*, young men clad in the skins of sacrificed goats, ran through the streets striking bystanders — especially women — with strips of hide to confer fertility. Under his cult-title Faunus Lupercus he presides over this rite of purification and increase, the god of the fecund wild loosed for a day into the heart of the city.
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## Related
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- [Pan](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/pan) — his Greek counterpart, the goat-god of the wild
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Roman Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology)
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