The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
Roman god of fields and woods.
He was portrayed as a peasant, either naked or clad in a tunic tucked up round his legs; in his long hair he wears a wreath of pine twigs, and he has a goatskin over his shoulders. Silvanus had no official cult, but he was very popular among the common people. It is possible that he can be traced back to the Etruscan → Selvans, whose name would be understood, by popular etymology, as meaning ‘he who lives in the woods (silva)’.
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