Satyr: alternatives and connections

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and musi…

Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a chari…

A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.

Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.

The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

A female demigod.

A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as…

A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.

Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.