I made friends with a Mournful Sphinx Moth, also called the Hawk Moth, today on my front porch. Look at those aerodynamic wings, the dead leaf camouflage! So cool!
Moths are symbolic of mystery and the veil between the worlds.
If this is a precursor to Cernunnos paying my front door a visit, though, I am going to be booking it out the back door like the big chicken I am!
Many old buildings in Europe, even churches, have carved on their walls a face made of leaves or vomiting vegetation, called a "Green Man." There's a lot of debate about how this design began or what its purpose was, but many assume it originally represented a pagan god.
Love this grotesque on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on Wilson Street in Glasgow. It looks like a combination of the Green Man and Pan.
Came across this representation of 'The Green Man', sometimes called a 'foliate head', in a shop stocking weird and wonderful things inspired by mythical stories and ancient legends.
Often used as a motif in architecture and art, the image is of a face surrounded by foliage.
It is usually considered as a symbol of rebirth and of the cycle of new growth that occurs every spring.
Seems appropriate posting this now with the Spring Equinox arriving this coming Thursday morning.
#greenman #spring #equinox #symbol #photography
Love the detail on the grave monument for the theatre impresario John Henry Alexander in the Glasgow Necropolis, especially the rather wind-blown foliate green man.
The Green Man on a building on Lancaster Terrace in Glasgow. Representing spring and rebirth, the Green Man appears on a surprisingly large number of buildings in the city, but this is one of the best I've found so far.
Love this rather wonderful character on the ruins of Cathcart Old Parish Church in Glasgow. The church was built in the 1830s and was replaced by a newer church nearby in the 1920s.
This collection of rather weird and wonderful sculpted heads are carved onto the corbels of decorative arches over the entrances to a series of tenement closes on Killearn Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. As far as I know they're unique and I've not come across any simlar ones on other tenements elsewhere in the city (yet!).
Cernunnos.
#cernunnos #kernunnos #forest #pagan #paganism #nofascism #greenman #lordoftheforest #lordofanimals #laughterintheforest #thehappyhornyone #hornedgod #hernethehunter #pagansofinstagram #pagansoffediverse
(Ursprünglich am 22. November 2019 auf Instagram gepostet.)
Love this sculpture of a green man carved below an oriel window on Fyfe Chambers on West George Street in Glasgow.
A few of the extraordinary roof bosses in Norwich Cathedral's cloisters.
#cathedral #carving #greenman #norwich
Something beautiful to brighten your day. This is 'Green Man Ogham’ by Samantha Symonds :)
Beautifully sculpted green men on the obelisk sundial in King's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. This is one of three Victorian replicas of the 1635 Mannerist sundial at Newbattle Abbey House in Midlothian.
Love this little guy above the entrance to a tenement close on Garry Street of the Southside of Glasgow. Almost all the other tenements on the street feature leaves or fruit, and this is the only one which features a face.
Three keystone heads on the 1897 Mercantile Chambers on Bothwell Street in Glasgow. Great stonework, but you wouldn't want to run into these guys after closing time on Friday night out!
Thrilled to have bagged tickets for Green Man 2025 and with less stress than previous years thanks to new and seemingly far more competent ticket outlet.
Bloody love that festival and happy to book before even a clue about line up has dropped as trust their curration completely. Will be speculating before that first announcement though!
