Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In ancient Roman religion, Inuus ( Classical Latin: [ˈɪnuʊs]) was a god, or aspect of a god, who embodied sexual intercourse. The evidence for him as a distinct entity is scant. Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote that Inuus is an epithet of Faunus (Greek Pan ), named from his habit of intercourse with animals, based on the etymology of ineundum ...
Faunus and Daphnis practising the Pan flute (Roman copy of Greek original). In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus [ˈfau̯nʊs] was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan, after which Romans depicted him as a horned god .
Maiacetus represents the transition of land mammals back to the oceans where these animals were living on the land-sea interface and going back and forth. [3] However, Hans Thewissen, discoverer of Ambulocetus, has questioned these conclusions, suggesting that the smaller skeleton could be a partially digested meal.
The Barbary macaque ( Macaca sylvanus ), also known as Barbary ape, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. [2] It is the type species of the genus Macaca. The species is of particular interest because males play an atypical role in rearing young ...
Dusios. In the Gaulish language, Dusios [1] was a divine being [2] among the continental Celts [3] who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion. Like these deities, he [4] might be seen as multiple in nature, [5] and referred to in the plural ...
Human physical appearance. Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Image of a Caucasian female (left) and an Asian male (right) human body seen from front (upper) and back (lower). Adult human bodies photographed whose naturally-occurring pubic, body, and facial hair have been deliberately removed to show ...
Religion portal. Ancient Greece portal. v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan ( / pæn /; [2] Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized : Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. [3] He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr.
Macaca siamica Kloss, 1917. Macaca mulatta mcmahoni Pocock, 1932. The rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta ), colloquially rhesus monkey, is a species of Old World monkey. There are between six and nine recognised subspecies that are split between two groups, the Chinese-derived and the Indian-derived. Generally brown or grey in colour, it is 47 ...