| Green Man |
 Aretha Franklin sings Natural Woman - What about a Natural Man?
Greenman -many layers of paint - many questions...
Does the Natural Person change as shapes of governments, accepted belief structures/ manifestations of collective consciousness change over millenia?
"Myth never was but always is" Gaius Salustius Crispus
It's a hundred years since Green Man appeared on Australia's Brisbane Print Office. (1910)
A Study of Myth and Masculinity. Psychological archetypes in the Southern Hemisphere. By New Zealand artist Maiia, editor Brindle Style Jung Greenwoman More Greenman Works
The Greenman mythos has it's roots deep in the soil, in the soul of Indigenous Europe. Greenman turns up on churches and pubs in England travelling along with the Anglo-Celtic peoples into the colonial and now the technological era.
The collection is a trintiy of manspirit - including youth and old age. Fully clad in the case of The Century's Great Humanist- Charlie Chaplin styled up for receiving honours and awards from the arts community.
There is also of a Green Knight -Warrior Spirit
A kindred spirit from northern hemisphere
Matthew Fox talks about Greenman. Clip below...
Iron Hans- A Book about Men another aditonal tale about manhood. 1990 by Robert Bly student of James Hillman 
Maiia: Green Man symbolises life in the growing things in many ancient traditions. With ties to Robin Hood, Herne the hunter; Pan of ancient Greece. Pan may have been over-impetuous... but not heartless... making a flute from reeds to mourn love lost. The blues . Jitterbug Perfume
"...western morality tends to put all better things up high and worse things down low. By the last century, growth became inexorably caught up in this ascensionist fantasy. Darwin's thesis, The Descent of Man, became, in our minds, the ascent of man." James Hillman - The Soul's Code. Green man - wikipedia.
 Green Man appears in 1910 on the Brisbane Print office.
"Dance then wherever you maybe, I am the Lord of the Dance said He.
And I lead you all wherever you may be and I lead you all in the dance said he." right- Paddy St Patricks Day
Jack Black's shroom skit- Pick of Destiny - covers a linked theme The Wildman theme. Iron John - no relation to Steely Dan or Greenies band Pearl Bird
Iron John - the Wildman by Robert Bly
Iron John was considered a sign of a beginning 'mens movement'
Greenman is also inspired by Paul Green and many often hilarious chats, on the state of Australia's, gender interactional, relational, sexual, and cultural life.
"Irwin Abrams, The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates, 1901-2001, argues that the peace laureates serve "as examples for the rest of us, especially young people, to try to emulate." What gives meaning to their stories, he believes, is that they reflect the capacity each of us has for courage, commitment and moral strength." -Scott London |
