In Roman mythology

It is a Genius loci titular of the Forêt S.
Il holds apparently its orgine of Selvans , of the Etruscan Mythologie.
Dans the Of agri will cultura of Caton Old the, one makes an offering with Mars Sylvanus for the health of the Bétail.

One compares the Celtic god Sucellos to Sylvanus. On the other hand, there does not seem to be connection with the companion of the Satyre S Silène.

Usually the Sylvanus god is represented holding a bill hook, with a crown of ivy or pine, his favorite tree. Sometimes the branch of pine which forms its crown is replaced by one of Cyprès, because of its tenderness for the young person Cyparisse which, according to certain authors, was metamorphosed in Cyprès, or because it has the first learned how to cultivate this tree in Italy.

Sylvains are also woodland people compared to the Elfe S of Scandinavian mythology or to the faunas.
Les Sylvains remained preferably in the orchards and wood. Their father, it, a son of Faunus, perhaps was appears was the same god as the god Pan of the Greeks. Saint Augustin, theologists Christian evokes the sylvains in the " Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas , in the chapter of the angels, question 51, Article III: " Beaucoup ensures to have tested, or to have intended to say by those which had tried out it, that Sylvains and faunas (those which the vulgar one calls Incube S ) often presented to women and consumed the union with them; as well, to want to deny it would be impudence . "

See too

• Roman Mythology