FAUN

The faun is a rustic forest god or place-spirit of Roman Mithology often associated with Greek satyrs and the Greek god Pan.

The faun is a half human half goat manifestacion of forest and animal spirits wich would help or hinder humans at whim. Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places but were aslo capable of guiding humans in need.

Though the text uses the world phaunus and describes the nature-spirit faun, the followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in later Roman mythology) are more accurately satyrs; the wild and orgiastic spirits that hassered nymphs. Faun and satirs were fauns are half-goat, satyrs originaly were depicted as stocky, hairy, ugly dwarfs or wood woses with the earsand tails of horses of asses.

It goes out in movies as: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne Mr. Tumnus , in C.S Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia By: Leire e Ines (6B)

PEGASUS
Pegasus is a beautiful horse.

He has wings. Pegasus was born out the blood of Medusa when Pegasus you cut off the hean. Usually replotted in black or white and it has two wings that let you blow up. A feature of your flight is that when perfomed,move your legs as if they were running through the air. According to classical sources, Perseus never flew mounted Pegasus, as it did because of winged sandals, however, many Renaissance artists portrayed him flyng in this horses. Pegasus appears primarily related to the hero Bellerophon, riding of the horse who was able to kill winged Chimera, a beast with multiple heads ravaging the territories of Lycia. Thanks to this horse Bellorophon could also obtain a victory overthe Amazon. Pegasus has been one of the horses made into movies Mitologic more like the unicorn, with extraodinary creatures that fit perfectly into the fantasy film and fiction. An example is Legend. By: Raquel y Lidia (6A)

CERBERUS

Cerberus or Kerberos, in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multiheaded hound (usually three-headed) which guards the gates of The Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although, the depiction and background surrounding Cerberus often differed across various works by different authors of the era. The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads; others show it with two or even just one; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50.

BY: Flix (6A)

THE SPHINX

The sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face and breast of a woman. In European decorative art, the sphinx enjoyed a major revival during the Renaissance. Later, the sphinx image was exported into many other cultures, albeit often interpreted quite differently due to translations of descriptions of the originals and the evolution of the concept in relation to other cultural traditions.

By: Rubn and Cristian (6 B)

SPHINX

Sphinx is a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head. The sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face and breast of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer her riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are gobbled up whole and eaten by this ravenous monster.Unlike the Greek sphinx which was a woman, the Egyptian sphinx is typically shown as a man (an androsphinx). In addition, the Egyptian sphinx was viewed as benevolent in contrast to the malevolent Greek version and was thought of as a guardian often flanking the entrances to temples. The inclusion of these figures in tomb and temple complexes quickly became traditional and many pharaohs had their heads carved atop the guardian statues for their tombs to show their close relationship with the powerful solar deity, Sekhmet, a lioness. Other famous Egyptian sphinxes include one bearing the head of the pharaoh Hatshepsut, with her likeness carved in granite, which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the alabaster sphinx of Memphis, Egypt, currently located within the open-air museum at that site. The theme was expanded to form great avenuesof guardian sphinxes lining the approaches to tombs and temples as well as serving as details atop the posts of flights of stairs to very grand complexes. Nine hundred with ram heads, representing Amon, were built in Thebes, where his cult was strongest.

By: Alba y Alicia (6A)