Saviours of abandoned gods?
"Ohakune Power Board staff find Roman god in Tongariro National Park" - now there's a headline for the tabloids. Last week the Bulletin reported that King Country Energy Staff had found a "Faun" with no mother. Our dictionary defines a faun as "n (Rom. myth) One of the rural dieties represented with horns, pointed ears, and tail of goat, and later also with goat's legs like satyrs, with whom they were associated. (f. FAUNUS)". Imagine how quick Holmes would get here if the electric boys had come across one of those in the bush while laying cable!. (As most readers may have worked out, we actually meant they'd found a fawn).
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 392, 25 June 1991, Page 12
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114Saviours of abandoned gods? Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 392, 25 June 1991, Page 12
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