GREEN MAN

There are almost a thousand sites in Britain alone where the Green Man can be found. He is frequently carved in stone in churches and cathedrals - in Exeter Cathedral there are five times as many images of the Green Man as there are of Christ. Yet his roots reach far deeper into to something much more ancient.
In ‘A Little Book of The Green Man’, Mike Harding gives examples of Green Man figures from Lebanon and Iraq dated to the 2nd century. There are similar figures also in Borneo, Nepal, and India.
Don’t you find it strange and fascinating that a foliate-faced man should appear from the earliest times, all over the world? Jesus, Osiris, Woden/Odin, the Green Knight, John Barleycorn, the Holly King and Thamuz of the Mesopotamians are all related to the Green Man, symbolising the triumph of Green Life over Winter and Death.
And here we are once again in the northern hemisphere, curling our life force inwards to sustain the collective tap root that probes ever deeper into the darkness. Even during this time. Green Man is alive and well, chuckling in the pulse between rocks and mycorrhizal web.
Green Man IS life, is the great unfolding nature and interplay of all beings. He is 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower'. Bring him into your home to nourish and hold and warm you through the Winter, no matter how long and cold it may be.