Silvanae

In the religion of the Roman Empire, the Silvanae are nymphs or goddesses associated with the woodland god Silvanus.

They are attested by inscriptions mainly in Pannonia, with a little more than a third of the evidence scattered in the rest of the Western Roman Empire.

Silvanae may be a regional preference in naming, not a form of cultic devotion distinct from the Nymphs of Silvanus.

[6] They are sometimes in the company of the crossroads goddesses known as Quadruviae, Triviae or Biviae (Four-, Three- or Two-Ways), found in Celtic regions of the Empire.

[13] Because of their concentration in the Danubian provinces, Silvanae are sometimes thought to be Imperial forms of the Celtic Matres or Matronae, "mother" goddesses who often appear as a clothed triad bearing flowers or other vegetative symbols.