Chefidel A team mug.

Resistance is fertile, greenman

         

 http://www.mikeharding.co.uk/greenman/

http://freespace.virgin.net/polter.geist/greenman.htm

http://www.mythinglinks.org/ct~greenmen.html

The Greenman is a potent symbol and is becoming encouragingly popular. This has given birth to some really cracking artistic greenmen. The one I've used in my resistance is fertile idea (above) is sublime and has been around for ages. The artist remains an enigma. Whoever they are I'm extremely grateful to them. I've had  this greenman on my bedroom wall for years

But profoundly powerful as he is, the Greenman is still the GreenMAN!

Gaian Spirituality must be balanced.
We need the other half of the sky!
   To be truly transformative it must transcend the  male domination of established religion and culture.

Fem-gaia.

 I've included several of my favourite Gaias below. The first is the wonderful  Bamberg greenman circa early 13th century, with his famous watchful sideways glance.

I'm  found in many a church but nary a bible.
 The greenshoots of something profound, cherished and undeniable pushing up between the flagstones...

Very fond of this. He looks a bit like a teddy bear or maybe the lion in  Wizard of  Oz

The name Glasgow is thought to derive from  Glas chu-'Beloved  Green place"
It's certainly beloved by me!

Apart from family photos, this Greenman is my most treasured possession.
 Made by my friend Debbie for my 40th birthday.

Boo!!

A real character: like Fagin in Oliver Twist.

A bit like a grumpy green cabbage but still good.

He looks a bit like Willy Nelson.

Greenlady?

And another female of the species.

Male ,female, both?

Superb!...as good as 'resistance is fertile'

Scottish Greenman.

 A very classical look to this one.

From Dunblane Cathedral

From Dore Abbey , Herefordshire

Blissed out, Zen or maybe just stoned?...................................and for contrast-Fierce!

Christlike?

Greenman/men/beasties?

                                 

A sunny disposition.....

     

  But don't be messing too much with mild-mannered Mr Green
 Otherwise...!

GREEN GETS DARK

A fierce green light....

From 20 nov 2005!!

That's how long ago i came up wi satans beard....see hotmail inbox

Satan's beard

FIRST- I absolutely recognise the necessity for a spirit-warming winter festival!!
BUT-

Modern Christmas is  a travesty, a Saintly Beard disguising the ugly face of the real event CRASSMASS: gross orgy of consumption and Sanctified, socialised OCD of shopping! All year round, year in year out,  our sensibilities are enfeebled and controlled by saturation advertising and programmed Consumption propaganda. 

-property makeover shows-go get yourself a nice easy-money buy to let property portfolio!

-gross promotion of the car cult. The degenerate 'American dream'-a monstrous SUV!

-millionaire type quiz shows. 'Dinnerlady wins a hundred and fifty million'...  'It could be you!' 

-Sex in the City type entertainment shit-it's just so cool and kooky to obsess about and spend a fortune on shoes and bags and frocks!

Christmas has been hijacked as the celebratory crescendo of this crap culture of  idiotic waste and exploitation. The nativity is effectively forgotten. All that Spiritual/Christian stuff got dumped decades ago. Mammon rules: so Santa Claus is a much more useful icon here than a stubbornly socialistic Jesus.  Kerching kerching, ding dong merrily on high his praises ring in malls around the world.

 Satan may be supernatural but Evil isn't. It's real, insidious and very very banal! 

                                                                                                                Ho Ho Ho!

Here's my anti consumerist Christmas design idea. It's a nice idea but my graphic design(see above) left a lot of room for improvement! I put this on a sweatshirt and understandably people tend to misread the text as SANTA'S BEARD rather than the actual - SATAN'S BEARD.

Beard here is used in its sense of cover, alibi, or disguise. Check out the case of Radovan Karadzic for a cheeky and very literal application! Karadzic Linky.

 

Santa Claus's colours happen to be red and white 'cos Saint Nicholas(Auld Nick?!) is Cokes Patron Saint of Marketing.