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Satyrs: Beyond Imagination
To start, what do we already understand about satyrs? They are horny. Goat legs and horns. They chase and seduce nymphs. The unknown, a level of human consciousness that has proven all pervasive throughout history, contact between cultures, especially those first contact moments, were often filled with misunderstanding evidenced by the example of the first…
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Culture of the Satyrs
The culture of the satyrs could be expressed as a spirit, one that would have seemed foreign and strange to the native Greeks as Dionysus was to begin with, also. The concept of patron deities to the city states would not be so strange if you think about it. Do our cities not even now…
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Satyrs: Emerged into Mythos
The Roman strigoi and Greek maenads might have been heavily influenced by the satyr people, to the point of imagery such as the thyrsus being present. The thyrsus is an older version of the rod of Aesculapius. Aesculapius himself having been said to have been tutored by the satyr/centaur chiron. The Norsemen were big horsemen were…
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Spirit of the Satyrs
The spirit of the satyrs is very far from gone. Many still feel the call of the wild and display the gifts Pan was said to provide; animal communication, wild foresight, instinctive intuition, even simple will to live which is not a common trait these days. Pan has been inviting us to dance to the…