Silvanus or Sylvanus may refer to:
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Silvanus (name) Silvanus is a masculine given name. Notable people and characters with the name include:
People and biblical figures Biblical figures and early Christians
* Silas or Silvanus (), an early Christian and companion of Paul
* Silvanus of the Seventy, a ...
, a given name, including a list of people, biblical figures and fictional characters with the name
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Silvanus (mythology)
Silvanus (; meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands. As protector of the forest (''sylvestris deus''), he especially presided over plantations and delighted in trees growing wild.Tibullus II.5.2 ...
, a Roman tutelary deity or spirit of woods and fields
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Sylvanus, Michigan
Allen is a village in Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and ...
, United States, a village
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''Silvanus'' (beetle), a genus of beetles
See also
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Teachings of Silvanus
The ''Teachings of Silvanus'' is the fourth tractate in Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library. The Coptic translation dates to c. 350 AD, but the original Greek version was likely written near Alexandria between c. 200 and the early 300s AD. The ...
'', a text from the Nag Hammadi library
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Silvain (disambiguation) Silvain may refer to:
* ''Silvain'' (opera), an opera by André Ernest Modeste Grétry
*Silvain of Ahun, French martyr and saint
* 15899 Silvain, an asteroid
People with the surname
*Eugène Silvain
Eugène-Charles-Joseph Silvain (17 June 1851 ...
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Silvan (disambiguation)
Silvan may refer to:
* Saint Silvan, Christian martyr
* Silvan (illusionist), Italian magician
* Silvan Byggemarked, Danish chain store that sells building materials
* Silvan Elves, woodland elves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendari ...
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Sylvain (disambiguation)
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