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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Jul 2022

@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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Quoted by@seenunseenmag 22/ Yet the vast breaks in through the particular, and Britain’s peculiar history—its precise convergence of demographic, cultural and mytho-religious forces—may be disclosing an unrecognized eschatological dimension and harbinger of the larger wholeness taking form.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @EsmeLKPartridge Transcending and including cultures, religions and *realms*, no less. Indeed, perhaps his revelatory significance as a fundamentally reconciliatory, planetary archetype has never been more clear-cut?Quoted by@EsmeLKPartridge Transcending and including cultures, religions and *realms*, no less. Indeed, perhaps his revelatory significance as a fundamentally reconciliatory, planetary archetype has never been more clear-cut?