I run a mile when hear the words Jungian archetype, although as we've touched on elsewhere (in the Folk: Image & Presentation thread actually) there is a persistence of analogue (a much preferable term) and patterns thereof which have their well-springs in our perceptive mechanisms, whereby we might not only recognise faces, but find therein beauty, menace, terror, and serenity.

As I've (maybe) said elsewhere the Green Men represent some of the finest figurative physiognomical sculpture of the medieval period. In the Chester Cloisters alone we find depicted a baffling array of characters and characteristics that gives to lie to a central Green Man figure in a depiction of Everyman in all his diverse forms, right up to Davros and, perhaps most astonishingly, Osama Bin Ladan!