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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Josh GellerSubject: RE: (urth) interesting Green Man article On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, James Wynn wrote: > Josh Geller notes: >> There's a green guy who is important in Islam also. >> And there's the one that's associated with peyote. >> Maybe they're not all the same green guy. It's interesting to >> contemplate what the World would have to be like for them all to be the >> same one > Actually the green fellow in Islam ("El Hidr" or "al-Khidr") is probably the > primary derivation of the NS's Green Man. Robert Graves in "The White > Goddess" identifies him as a "former Sun-hero". Apparently he drank from a > pool of youth in Hyperborea and gained immortality. He encounters wandering > holy men to impart divine knowledge. He is also a patron of sea travelers so > perhaps, like Apollo (another Sun divinity) and all the Moon divinities > (according to Graves), one his early aspects was a sea-god. > But alloying of conceptual cognates is very Wolfean. It's interesting that he shows up sometimes when people eat peyote. . --