I found an abandoned Green Man sculpture. It's very abandoned, trust me.
I'd like to bring it home as I feel bad for him out there all over grown.
Is that wrong?
I don't know if anyone here knows as I think he's more druid than anything else...but just in case...thought I'd ask.
Jennifer
<font color=purple> Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow". -- The Talmud </font color=purple>
As far as I know he is an old European (druid?) figure that represents the embodiment of life forces. He is typically associated with winter when "life forces" go inside the earth (like the waldorf story book - the root children). He is represented as the green night in king aurther tales and many feel he is the inspiration for robin hood. we have a latern with him on it that we place on the table in winter or go for lantern walks with. I for one would think it nice for you to bring him home and care for him.
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Re: Anybody know about the Green Man???
He is often worshipped as the male deity next to the Goddess in pagan religions. I'll give him a good home if you want. I think even "Hern The Hunter" in the Robin Hood legend was viewed as the green man.
Okay, here's the deal...my husband saw a Green Man like this a long time ago and really adored him...like, if any man would be the green man...it'd be my husband.
Anyway....so, we found this really expensive house we covet....could never afford. The people have been gone for years...everything is gone but the Green Man, in one tangled up part of the garden.
The thing is....it's exactly the same as the one my husband saw years ago...it's a one of a kind type of thing.
Well, I was going to go back and get it for him, but got worried.
I don't think it's stealing....because they are long gone and haven't been back to the house, that we can tell, for years. We go there every few weeks and have a picnic.
We're weird.
LOL
Jennifer
<font color=purple> Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow". -- The Talmud </font color=purple>
You absolute rebel of a girl! What ARE you going to do with him? I have no advice on wrapping. I am totally cracking up, sounds like something I would do.
Okay...he's in a box....ready to wrap.
LOL.
He's nice and wrapped up in one of Eli's play silks...LOL.
Oh, and my husband should never question that I love him...I have some absolute primal terror about driving through water...scares me to no end...and you have to drive through a creek to get to this place...and it's been raining...so it was a torrent.
I was thinking, "Here I am, pregnant, with a toddler in the back, going to commit what some would consider petit larceny, driving through a raging, white water creek....trespassing no less...."
LOL.
It was too funny.
And my husband has no idea.
heehee.
Jennifer
<font color=purple> Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow". -- The Talmud </font color=purple>
Oh, it's a Christmas gift...definitely...after what I went through!
He kept bugging me about the beard trimmer he *knew* was under the tree until I finally just gave it to him...LOL...he didn't want to pay for it to be trimmed (extra with a haircut) if there was already a trimmer waiting for him...
The worst part is, I keep wanting to tell him about the Green Man adventure...but I can't breathe any part of it...I can't even say I went up there, b/c he knows I would *never* drive through water (this ain't no puddle either...it's a wide, deep, rushing creek) willingly....LOL...he'd know something was up.
So, I keep catching myself about to spill the beans....luckily, I haven't spilled any yet....only 6 more days...I can do it!
Jennifer
<font color=purple> Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow". -- The Talmud </font color=purple>
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