FAUNA Either the wife or the daughter of Faunus, the Roman god of the field, she was called 'the kind goddess', and was supposed to have watched over the whole of creation, a kind of caretaker of the world. Her offspring were the Fatui, who were considered to be prophetic deities of the fields, and sometimes evil Genii, who were seen as the cause of nightmares. Fauna was usually depicted as an aged woman, with pointed ears and holding a serpent in her hand.