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The Green Man is repeatedly perceived as an antique Celtic symbol. In Celtic mythology, he is a god of movement and summer. He disappears and returns day gone year, century subsequent to century, enacting themes of bereavement and resurrection, the ebb and stream of verve and creativity. The Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain, The Green Knight, is a notable likeness of the Green Man from the middle Ages. Gawain had a green helmet, green armor, grreen shield... uniform a green horse. As he was decapitated, he continued to live.
To the sea-faring and fishing Celts the catch fish was
and of predominant importance. The Celtic indication of
the fish, unusually the salmon, represents know- ledge, wisdom, divination and mystic inspiration. In Celtic mythology the Salmon of Wisdom were
the keepers of all knowledge, which they gained by consumption the nuts of the sacred hazel trees.
Salmon and trout were regularly associated to sacred
wells and springs, which were sitting room of unrefined
curing and Celtic cipher of spiritual rebirth.
