The Snake is the minimalist animal, of the simplest form.
The chimaerical Drygand is the maximalist animal, drawing on the forms of all living things.
Snake and Drygand are the two extremes that bracket the whole of Life between them. And like brackets, one is not found without the other.
The Snake, Were-snake (Naga), and Dragon (a snakish chimaera), represent a primordial God found in archaeological evidence and mythology from around the world. This God preceded the humanist gods of advanced civilizations which had conquered Nature and distanced themselves so far from it that the gods, apart from a few minor Nature-gods, were in the form of the human masters of antinatural civilization. This can be seen in the Olympian gods of ancient Greece, who came to preside over the most advanced civilizational humanism yet seen. These advanced civilizations found reassurance in myths of heroes slaying chimaerical monsters. In the case of ancient Greece, these monsters may represent the pre-Olympian Titans and even more archaic gods, who may not have been seen as monsters by their devotees, but as a numinous weirdness expressing the vast totality of Life. The Drygand, the ultimate Chimaera, is just a more adequate expression for our time of this primordial Godhood of all Nature.
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