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Today would be Peter Steele's 59th birthday. Happy Birthday and rest in peace, Green Man.
4th January 1962 - 14th April 2010
shut up, the angel is singing
Fine rapier with chiseled hilt, northern Italy, circa 1600
from Czerny's International Auction House
ribboned creatures and an emerald wild man
from the marginalia of the "wenzelsbibel" ("wenceslas bible"), prague, c. 1389-95
source: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2759, fol. 42v, 21r, 43v, and 57r
Me in the Green Man mask I made a few years back...
christening my account with peter steele
he won't go away... I'm scared
Horned God 🫎
Maybe I’m just a little jaded, but I do find it a little frustrating that you have to basically be an archeologist to dig past all of the Christian God stuff to get to anything resembling a pagan God symbol. Even then, to find a “general” god symbol is harder than you’d think considering the patriarchal world we live in. But maybe that just says something about paganism, that they don’t place the “male” on such a much higher pedestal. Really the only symbol that I could find enough information on was the Horned God symbol.
The Horned God symbol is a circle topped by a curve. Some would call it a crescent moon sort of sideways, which ties into its relation to the triple moon goddess symbol, as a male counterpart. However, most people would refer to the curve atop the circle as the horns, hence the “Horned God” moniker. I always assumed that it was a representation of the one Celtic God, Cernunnos, or maybe even of the Green Man from the Old English traditions. I was really pleasantly surprised to find that it actually represented more than that. In fact, it dates back to 13,000 BC, to a cave painting in France of all places. In the cave called the Three Brothers (Trois-Freres), the circle with horns symbol is drawn on the wall, and there, it’s called The Sorcerer. It’s also a symbol for Osiris, Caerwiden, Herne the Hunter, Pashaputi, Pan and the satyrs, Puck, and Robin Goodfellow. Clearly, I was just ill-informed, and it’s more than just a Celtic, or Green Man symbol.
However, I suppose the argument could be made that it’s a symbol for a certain TYPE of God, if not all gods. At its most basic, it represents the male aspect of nature; virility and power. It’s a hunter type of energy, a god of wild animals. There’s something to be said about the association between strong hunters and the strength of seed to impregnate and further the population. It’s protection, and the giving and taking of life. The horns on top of the circle evokes the image of a great stag, king of the forest, and an equal balance to the feminine energy.