New God for a New Paganism

Modern Pagan religions are past-oriented, seeking inspiration and legitimation from the pre-Christian religions that once existed in and around Europe. This has led modern Pagan groups to adopt various ideas about pre-Christian religions and their survival that stem from late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scholarship – including the notion of the Green Man. The belief that the foliate heads of medieval ecclesiastical architecture demonstrated evidence for a pre-Christian religion surviving into the High and Late Middle Ages, as articulated in its most complete form by Lady Raglan in 1939, appealed to early Wiccans such as Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, who interpreted these heads as depictions of the Wiccan Horned God. By the 1990s, the Green Man had become arecurring image in the modern Pagan milieu who was increasingly incorporated into ritual, while the 2000s witnessed the growth of modern Pagan literature devoted to this new sylvan god

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• New Age Religion and Western Culture

  Wouter J Hanegraaff•New Age Religion and Western…•1996

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• The “Green Man” in Church Architecture

  Lady Raglan•Folklore•1939

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• Dark Green Religion

  Bron Taylor•Dark Green Religion•2009

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• Theoretical, Terminological, and Taxonomic Trouble in the Academic Study of Contemporary Paganism

  Ethan Doyle White•Pomegranate The International…•2016

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• Gleb Botkin and the Church of Aphrodite

  Dmitry Galtsin•Pomegranate The International…•2013

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• Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration

  Chas S Clifton•Pomegranate The International…•2004

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• The Name of the Green Man

  Brandon S Centerwall•Folklore•1997

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• Garland Day at Castleton

  S O Addy•Folklore•1901

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• Margaret Murray

  Jacqueline Simpson•Folklore•1994

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• VI. The Celts

  Arthur Bernard Cook•Folklore•1906

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• Geologists and Folklorists

  Gillian Bennett•Folklore•1994

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• Female Fertility Figures

  M A Murray•The Journal of the Royal…•1934

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• Frazer, Leach, and Virgil, The Popularity (and Unpopularity) ofThe Golden Bough

  Open Access•Mary Beard•Comparative Studies in Society…•1992

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