THE GREEN MAN - Second Part_MSWMM.wmv

www.sibeliusmusic.com Here is a god from the beginning of time which pervades all cultures from Africa to Asia to Europe. He is The Green Man, The Great Horned god, Cernunnos, Herne, Pan, Janus, Tammuz, Damuzi, Osiris, Dionysus. He is The Celtic God of fertility, animals and the underworld. The Hunter, Egyptian Lord of the underworld, Greek god of vegetation and vine and the woodlands. The Green Man symbolises the cycle of life, death and re-birth. The music carries us forwards into more culturally diverse ages and eventually into the 20th century. The Green Man and his various manifestations are still celebrated in music and dance and whatever takes the peoples fancy. A Morris is danced on a village green one spring Sunday afternoon, the birds are singing, the church bells are sounding. Time has no meaning for The Green Man, and into the 21st century he and his culture are celebrated in Rock music.