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- Jan 14, 2016
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Terra/Riku =earth
Osiris A god of the earth and vegetation ruler of the underworld and of rebirth. Biblically = Adam which is Hebrew word for ground. Archetypally the relationship between the Green Man and Gaia (kairi) is either likened to that of a child and its mother, two passionate lovers or fellow consorts ruling in harmony. This clearly shows that the male power exists in its alchemy with the feminine rather than in its control of her, as in the ancient oriental Yin-Yang symbol. In the context of the Earth‚s ecosystem, the Green Man archetype could therefore be seen to represent the eco-web of the biosphere itself - the diverse network of organic life which has been "born" from the fertile waters and minerals of the Earth, which constantly "makes love" with "her" to produce more complex and varied forms of organic life and which will die back again at some unknown point in the future.
map the evolution of organic life over the last 3.5 billion years it is clear that this has occurred through a number of cycles of birth, mass extinction and re-birth, which is a key aspect of the Green Man
the biosphere can be seen as the "child" and "lover" of the Earth, which evolves through cycles of birth, death and re-birth (rikus constant battle with Ansem SOD, the crucified sun and Riku's future self)
The poet William Anderson describes the Green Man as the "watcher", an observer of life evolving into ever greater complexity, stability and (perhaps) awareness. He suggests that Gaia and indeed the living universe as a whole needs an aspect which is separate enough and independent enough to see and experience itself in all its glory and that in some way this is integral to the process of evolution as the observer becomes one with what he observes (rikus acceptance of the darkness/walking the middle path) in order to share this objective image.
Osiris A god of the earth and vegetation ruler of the underworld and of rebirth. Biblically = Adam which is Hebrew word for ground. Archetypally the relationship between the Green Man and Gaia (kairi) is either likened to that of a child and its mother, two passionate lovers or fellow consorts ruling in harmony. This clearly shows that the male power exists in its alchemy with the feminine rather than in its control of her, as in the ancient oriental Yin-Yang symbol. In the context of the Earth‚s ecosystem, the Green Man archetype could therefore be seen to represent the eco-web of the biosphere itself - the diverse network of organic life which has been "born" from the fertile waters and minerals of the Earth, which constantly "makes love" with "her" to produce more complex and varied forms of organic life and which will die back again at some unknown point in the future.
map the evolution of organic life over the last 3.5 billion years it is clear that this has occurred through a number of cycles of birth, mass extinction and re-birth, which is a key aspect of the Green Man
the biosphere can be seen as the "child" and "lover" of the Earth, which evolves through cycles of birth, death and re-birth (rikus constant battle with Ansem SOD, the crucified sun and Riku's future self)
The poet William Anderson describes the Green Man as the "watcher", an observer of life evolving into ever greater complexity, stability and (perhaps) awareness. He suggests that Gaia and indeed the living universe as a whole needs an aspect which is separate enough and independent enough to see and experience itself in all its glory and that in some way this is integral to the process of evolution as the observer becomes one with what he observes (rikus acceptance of the darkness/walking the middle path) in order to share this objective image.
