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Myths and Legends of Ancient

by E. M. Berens

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Picumnus and Pilumnus

Picumnus and Pilumnus were two household divinities of the Romans, who were the special presiding deities of new-born infants.

Silvanus

Silvanus was a woodland divinity, who, like Faunus, greatly resembled the Greek Pan. He was the presiding deity of plantations and forests, and specially protected the boundaries of fields.

Silvanus is represented as a hale old man, carrying a cypress-tree, for, according to Roman mythology, the transformation of the youth Cyparissus into the tree which bears his name was attributed to him.

His sacrifices consisted of milk, meat, wine, grapes, wheat-ears, and pigs.

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