Sedgwick adds: “I think the Green Man is one of those figures that really appeals to people, and I still see people confidently asserting that he’s this ancient nature god lurking in churches as a ...

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His favorite poet was reputed to have been Hölderlin, the inscrutable mystic for whom the pagan gods were real personages ... American Catholic press as the “green pope.” ...

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On the flip side, sheep are most often associated with God and purity ... which sees a priest place all the sins of man onto a goat before symbolically driving him out into the desert. They are also ...