What is The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)?

[Part_Time_Civer]

Ok, this has been an obsession for me since a long time. Judas Priest covered this song by Peter Green of Fleerwood Mac called "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) ".

Some people say the song id about money (i.e. greenbacks). Others claim it's about a certain typ of drugs which Green used to take.
Rob Halford, the singer of Judas Priest, has alledgedly stated that the "Green Manalishi" is a hindu version of the devil.

Now, I don't think anybody really knows, so I guess this thread will die out soon, but you never know, that's why I ask you all:
What on earth is a manalishi?

 

[Yoda Power]

It's a good song for all I know/care.

Wiki or Google really have no answer for you?

 

[Mandeville]

http://songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6495

 

[Part_Time_Civer]

http://songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6495

Taken from the site:
This was based upon a recurrent dream Peter Green had in which he woke up unable to move while messages about money formed in his brain. Green recalls: "When I woke up I found I was writing this song. Next day I went out to the park and the words started coming. The Green Manalishi is the wad of notes, the devil is green and he was after me. Fear, inspiration is what it was, but it was that tribal ancient Hebrew thing I was going for. Ancient music." More recently he admitted, "It took me two years to recover from that song. When I listened to it afterwards there was so much power there... it exhausted me."


So is it money, the devil, or...a hebrew thing? Any people knowledgeable about Hebrew stuff on the site?

 

[Phlegmak]

What is The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)?

A song by the Melvins.

 

[Part_Time_Civer]

A song by the Melvins.

The Melvins? I have to admit I never heard of them, but I just wiki'd them and it turns out they were formed in the early 1980s. That's after FM.

 

[Phlegmak]

The Melvins? I have to admit I never heard of them, but I just wiki'd them and it turns out they were formed in the early 1980s. That's after FM.

Maybe. But the song you asked about is the name of a song by the Melvins. I didn't know it was made by Fleetwood Mac until this thread. Obviously, the Melvins got the song name from Fleetwood Mac.

 

[Jawz II]

http://songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6495

If there are song facts on that site, this site here is full of song opinions (mostly dumb):

http://www.songmeanings.net/

Sometimes someone gets something right.