Satyr "Shower-proof" Genetics (Updated 10 May 2006)

[Suspiria]

These are awesome.  

[OceanPrince]

hmmm i wonder now what my Mermaid and Satyr's child will look like? Maybe it will have a hairfish tail?

[BeosBoxBoy]

Very nice! Now if only someone would do some Fawns.

In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people.

The Barberini Faun (Glyptothek, Munich, Germany) is a Hellenistic marble, c. 200 BC that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII), the patron of Bernini, who heavily restored and refinished it, so that its present 'Hellenistic baroque' aspect may be enhanced.

The Marble Faun (1860) is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne set in Rome. The faun of the title epitomizes the natural, carefree Count Donatello: "Our friend Donatello is the very Faun of Praxiteles. Is it not true, Hilda?" is the opening remark as four young art-minded friends gather in the sculpture-gallery in the Capitoline Museums at Rome. "In truth, allowing for the difference of costume, and if a lion's skin could have been substituted for his modern talma, and a rustic pipe for his stick, Donatello might have figured perfectly as the marble Faun, miraculously softened into flesh and blood," Hawthorne allows. Later, Donatello's murderous crime of passion will destroy him and transform the other characters. (The "Faun of Praxiteles", as Hawthorne describes it, is an imaginary sculpture loosely based on Praxiteles' Hermes.)

The Fauns, which are asscociated with Satyrs, but are known to be more gentle, are mischievous creatures with the legs, ears and tail of a deer and the face and body of a handsome young man. They follow the god Faunus and can cause nightmares. At times, they can also be quite cheerful.

FAUNUS [Faunus] , in Roman religion, woodland deity, protector of herds and crops. He was identified with the Greek Pan. His festival was observed on Dec. 5 with dancing and merrymaking. Another festival, the Lupercalia , held in February, is also generally believed to have been in honor of him. He was attended by fauns—mischievous and sportive creatures, half man and half goat, similar to satyrs. The female counterpart of Faunus was Bona Dea, also called Fauna.

In short - Kattspaw, I have no idea what they are teaching in schools these days, but your information is mistaken, fauns are all male always too, and the answer remains NO!

[Sim_God]

MAGICAL!!!

[gilliansl]

The skins are great and wonderful and look fantastic and I adore them...
But... but... my satyrs have no pokey-out-parts! Can we have them with pokey-parts too? (after all, what else are satyrs for!?)

Thanks
Gillian

[marvine]

LOL Gillian, I totally forgot about that! Well I hope to do it very soon

[jwilson5]

Is there any chance that the teen satyr mesh will be done? I can't let any satyr boys grow into teens cause they will have really hairy legs and funny feet without the mesh.
    By the way, thanks Marvine (and Beosboxboy) for all the wonderful things you create that make this game so much more than the Maxis folks imaged it could be.

[marvine]

Jwilson, I'll go back to this project as soon as I can

[Glass3690]

Excellent.  Thank you

[jacques34]

Great job! I am having a problem, though. Unless I don't know where to find everythihg, or how to put it all together, I am missing something. The legs are covered with hair, but they look human. The feet are human, too, with funny black things on them. Any ideas? Thanks.

[BeosBoxBoy]

jacques - you need to use the clothing also - it is in the this section

[oniongirl999]

Yummy, I bet Mr. Tumnus is eating his scarf right about now

[pacha]

excellant work thanks

[Codi Jo]

thnx bbb these r great, hey think u could make 1 in diablo red ? was thinking of makeing a red one with maybe bull horms like in diablo pictures ive seen or like in the tom cruise movie of long ago, lol so long ago i forgot the name of it

[gilliansl]

LOL Gillian, I totally forgot about that! Well I hope to do it very soon

Personally, I'd love to simply toss out all the 'other' male messes and use ONLY the BB and slim BB meshes in my game! (Well, along with the horns, hooves, satyr parts, and the FUN parts (wink, wink, nudge, nudge!!!) Did I mention I REALLY enjoy the FUN parts?

Gillian

PS... for that questioner, the Tom Cruise movie you mention is "Legend".