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To: Reverend Saltine
The Green Man is most highly believed to have begun as a pre-Christian entity, a spirit of nature personified as a man. His earliest images have been dated long before the coming of the Christian religion, depictions dating back before the days of the Roman Empire. However, it is with the coming of the empire that his images are noted as spanning religions, as he has been found both within the empire and at its borders, and then similar versions in other far reaching cultures such as India.

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6 posted on 01/28/2015 6:11:25 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

oh, that’s just so...WRong....


18 posted on 01/28/2015 8:44:51 PM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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