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RT @nick_routledge: @noonessleep @LeyfMax Also a universal, transcultural, trans-historical, prophetic prototype, as it happens; recognized in contemporary US theology as 'The Return of the Gardener King of the New Creation' (see Douglas Green in 'When the Gardener Returns: An Ecological Perspective on Adam's Dominion').

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Apr 2022

@anglicanspb end/ In essence, he represents a revelatory mode, heralding our 'belated' recognition of something essential and ordinary about us, a natural aspect of being with life where the worldly and spiritual, 'earthly and celestial', mix and match. Life as fundamentally co-evolutionary.

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Quoted by@cilekver @holland_tom @TomMcTague @dcsandbrook The Green Man represents a planetary, prophetic prototype, combining several Quranic, Biblical and ancient mythical heroes including the Islamic prototype of Elijah, Khezr, the Green Man of Islam and, concurrently, 'Anglo-specific' theological, mythic and folkloric personas.Quoted by@conalabu @ahistoryinart 2/ Supposing him to be the gardener." 'Do Not Hold On to Me', 2013, by He Qi. 'Noli me tangere', 2016, by Michael Cook. 'New Gardener', 2017, by Janpeter Muilwijk. 'Noli me tangere', 1874, by Edward Burne-Jones (design) and William Morris (execution).