On Occult Philosophy or the Secret Miraculous Birth of the Seven Planets and Metals

and she began to lust for a sweet food, which was yet not easy to obtain at that same time. And Coelus her husband did not know what he should do. But what happened? Coelus went out again to amuse himself and to look around for game, and he led the goddess completely naked by her hand. There a very high round mountain opened up, glistening like a beautiful precious stone and like a mirror that gives off fire, and honey and milk flowed from it. And behold, a monster of a very terrible, old, and ugly form came to the gods and spoke to them with sharp words. What they intended to accomplish in their minds, he knew well, and he took of this milk and honey that had come out of the mountain and said to them: I am called Faunus, and I am older than you, therefore I also know more than you both. Follow me, however, and obey my voice in what I shall announce to you. Only let no one interrupt me, for otherwise it will cost both of your lives, so that from henceforth for eternal times you will no longer be gods.