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Faf´ner, a giant turned dragon, treasure-stealer; by the Solar Theory simply the Darkness who steals the day, [354], [355], [356].
Fal-er-i´na, an enchantress, [678], [686], [688].
Fam´ine, [170].
Fa´solt, a giant, brother of Fafner, and killed by him, [354].
“Fas´ti,” Ovid’s, a mythological poetic calendar, [309].
Fa´ta Mor-ga´na, a mirage, [691].
Fates, the three, described as daughters of Night—to indicate the darkness and obscurity of human destiny—or of Zeus and Themis, that is, “daughters of the just heavens:” they were Clo´tho, who spun the thread of life; Lach´e-sis, who held the thread and fixed its length, and At´ro-pos, who cut it off, [9], [56], [67], [170], [180], [181].
Fauns, cheerful sylvan deities, represented in human form, with small horns, pointed ears, and sometimes goat’s tail, [10], [76].
Fau´nus, son of Picus, grandson of Saturnus, and father of Latinus, worshipped as the protecting deity of agriculture and of shepherds, and also as a giver of oracles, [10], [36], [166], [209], [276].