I keep meaning to set it down with greater substance, otherwise it just comes out in hang-over babble as the synapses attempt to reconnect with reality in the cold light of day wherein I might resent the sun for shining, perhaps, a little too brightly... There is a case for such an approach, I'm sure, and it's implicit at every turn of the film, just as there are clear implications for modern paganism therein, which is, for the most part, a similar system of ill-founded assumption & absolutism - the May-Pole is a phallic symbol, the Green Man is a pagan god of the greenwood, the Sheela-na-Gig is the Goddess of Fertility etc. Interesting to note no Greenies or Sheelas in The Wicker Man, but way back in 1973 such things were entirely absent from the pagan / wiccan cultural consciousness. It's not until Anne Ross's Grotesques & Gargoyles (1975) that Greenies make their first* appearance in this respect, though of course in academia & folkloric circles you can take that back to 1939 when Lady Raglan first came up with the term Green Man for such imagery and postulated a folkloric origin, which, at the time, also meant pagan.

Enough! We've got another sing tonight and I haven't even decided what I'm going to do yet...

* If anyone can give an earlier date for Greenies in popular folkloric or pagan / wiccan literature I'd be interested in hearing from you.