All very interesting. I see repeated denials that this "green man" has any relation to pre christian religion. Although I know little of the pre-Christian history in the British Isles, or anywhere else for that matter, I always thought that these "green men" looked strikingly similar to the Wild Maa of the Vogel Gryph Festival in Basle, Switzerland. It has been explained to me that the Wild Maa was a pre-christian fertility symbol which became adopted as the symbol of one of KlienBasle's trade guilds in the 13th century, along with Vogel Gryph, and Leu. It had been my assumption that these grotesques found thru-out Europe actually were signatures by the mason which included the recognized symbol of his trade guild, which may or may not have come from pagan idolatry.

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Marc Bernier