the first known literary reference to Robin Hood and his men was in 1377, and the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum have an account of Robin's life which states that he was born around 1160 in Lockersley in Yorkshire. No such place exists in either Yorkshire or Nottinghamshire but there is a Loxley in Staffordshire. Another chronicler has it that he was a Wakefield man and took part in Thomas of Lancaster's rebellion in 1322.
One certain fact is that he was a North Country man, with his traditional haunts as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest and a coastal refuge at Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire.
One well known story about Robin that places him in Whitby, Yorkshire, is about him and Little John having a friendly archery contest. Both men were skilled at archery and from the roof of the Monastery they both shot an arrow. The arrows fell at Whitby Lathes, more than a mile away. Afterwards the fields where the arrows landed were known as Robin Hood's Close and Little John's Close.
Robin became a popular folk hero because of his generosity to the poor and down-trodden peasants, and his hatred of the Sheriff and his verderers who enforced the oppressive forest laws, made him their champion. Some chroniclers date his exploits as taking place during the reign of Edward II, but other versions say the king was Richard I, the Lionheart.
History: Lord of the Trees
Herne the Hunter is the mirror of Cernunnous [meaning, 'horned'] the Celtic Horned God of the hunt, fertility, and protector of the animal kingdom. He is married to the Goddess of the Moon, alternating with her all responsibilities of sovereignty over life, death, and the underworld. [Here may reside a parallel with Metatron and Sandalphon "of The Face."] The life of Cernunnous is traditionally mapped as cyclic, however the lights [Sun and Moon] are sometimes linked with the spiral staircase [especially during the Winter Solstice--his birth, and the Summer Solstice--his death as a sacrifice to life.]
Occasionally Cernunnous was portrayed with serpent legs, torso of a man, a head of a bull or ram; or he was shown as the Robin of Sherwood series presents him, as the man with stags covering, head, and antlers. Herne the Hunter is sometimes considered to be the Deva of Britain; he is also Pan, the Greek god of the woodlands [or Dionysus of the mysteries], Janus, the Roman god of past and future - the door that opens as another door is closed. Still, he may represent the Western Power Place where all opposites meet. He is seated in a lotus position on the Gundestrup Cauldron, surrounded by those of the animal kingdom known to be protected by him in the wild.
Occasionally Cernunnous was portrayed with serpent legs, torso of a man, a head of a bull or ram; or he was shown as the Robin of Sherwood series presents him, as the man with stags covering, head, and antlers. Herne the Hunter is sometimes considered to be the Deva of Britain; he is also Pan, the Greek god of the woodlands [or Dionysus of the mysteries], Janus, the Roman god of past and future - the door that opens as another door is closed. Still, he may represent the Western Power Place where all opposites meet. He is seated in a lotus position on the Gundestrup Cauldron, surrounded by those of the animal kingdom known to be protected by him in the wild.
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