Saint George
The Ancients
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St. George's Channel
The theme of water seems to be quite strong with saint george. He is strongly associated, particularly in central and eastern europe, with may day festivities and the turning of theer. The figure of the green man that many of us are familiar with is something which is loosely described as pagan. It's a way of invoking ideas of fertility and blessing the land. Even into the twentieth century, there's good oral history, evidence from the slavic areas, from the far north of europe, of saint george still being seen as a hugely powerful figure.
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