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Well practised in the secrets of the lonely thickets, having learnt about the highland haunts, Ichneutae, with cloven hooves that spread under load, were mercurial amidst the roaring blaze and leaders into the forest of pine.

- Faun Tales from Carthage

As for the myths of satyr and faun, these are not the tales we tell ourselves. Postdeluvial Greeks and Romans knew only our exiles and anomalies. They knew wanderers and loners who came by chance or were drawn beyond the northern pines to the outland swamps and then swallowed up and all but lost. Of these, most scattered, keeping to their ways. If any settled at all they settled on the Apennine Peninsula; there to chase and bother the indigenous nymph. Some thrilled, charmed and gained notoriety.

Pan was amongst them for a time.

To us, these rough goats are like aberrant streams off a river lost in a forest.