The Summer Solstice on the longest day of the year is a special day celebrated by Spiritualists in the UK and those with a leaning towards the belief in Earth, the Planets and our place, indeed like the way of the Indian. I was visiting some friends who were in my area on holiday and took these nice sunset pictures. Hope that you like them.
We have a way of thinking here that the colour blue is associated with the Boy and pink with the Girl, so we see nature has arranged these two colours together for us.
There is a festival called the Green Man festival which celebrates the spring growth and the Green Man is represented with the face of a man often surrounded by Oak leaf foliage. The Green Man in legend was a Greek Deity called Dionysys who represented the lush growth of the forest and plants. Here is a typical Green Man representation:-
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"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight"! Lovely pictures. I thought the Green Man had a Celtic origin also?
Red sky at night, pants are alight!,
Yes that is true there was a Celtic origin of the Green Man, it also had origins in ancient Greece and then the Romans borrowed the legend as they did.
Perhaps this knowledge was spread to different areas by the same source, it is quite strange how we find people from ancient times in areas they were in, apparently developing knowledge, belief systems and having knowledge that they shouldn't really have.
From an earlier post, I wonder why people in Africa, Australia and America used pigments to paint their bodies? So either they came up with this idea independently or perhaps they were instructed?
That was a particularly vibrant colour scheme in that sky!
Don't forget the ancient Britons who painted their faces with woad ... frightened the first Romans I believe
Indeed, also think of the arrowhead and axe head and knife, all 'independently" designed across the ancient world, or were they helped?