Flute
The flute denotes powerful emotion, seduction, harmony, and divine music; Greek accounts also frame it as bodily distortion or foreign excess.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 2 figures
- Traditions
- Greek mythology (1)Roman mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Faun bears Roman mythology
why
They are known to play musical instruments like the pan-flute to lead humans into the wilderness.
- Satyr bears Greek mythology
why
They are often depicted playing the pan flute or syrinx, instruments associated with their patron god, Pan.