Silvanus’s Connections

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Equivalent to

• Selvans(Etruscan)

  Selvans and Silvanus share both name and function as guardians of boundaries and woodlands, the Etruscan deity passing directly into Roman religion through the close cultural exchange between the traditions.

Associated with

• Faunus,Pomona,Priapus

  Pomona shut herself inside her orchards and refused every suitor who came calling — Silvanus, Faunus, Priapus, and a host of other rustic gods all failed to win her, each turned away by the nymph who loved only her pruning-knife and her trees.