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Is the Oak King the Green Man, and the Holly King the Horned God?

12-05-2005 3:16pm

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PaulinCork

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Does anyone else think of the Oak King as the Green Man, and the Holly King as the Horned God?

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#2 12-05-2005 3:27pm

Nevyn

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To me they are all the one God in differing aspects, but there is to me a linking like you suggest.
Growth and fertitliy and summer assocated with the Greenman and the Oak king,
hunt and harvest and winter assocated with the Horned God and Holly king.

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#3 12-05-2005 3:33pm

Talliesin

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I'm getting a slight feeling of déjà vu here.

Anyway, no, to me they are quite separate, I don't see the Honed God and the Green Man as being opposed to each other as the Oak King and Holly King are. I can see how you could say the Oak King is more like the Green Man than the Horned God and the Holly King is more like the Horned God than the Green Man, for the reasons Thaed gave above, but the connection isn't a firm one to my mine.

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