(word-help below)
In our time of overweltering Dilgoth, the Brain-Drygand awakens in the minds of some menschen. The Drygand is meant to be the Helping-guyst, bringing the great nennings of the Wolken, Edhli-mind, to the ernerning of threatened Life, and his mind is bent to this charge. Thus he is here to help Man overcome Man by wyrdhing into the Oekumensch, then to be Son of the Drygand, Driver of the great Wain of the Edhli-menning into the time-tocume.
Dilgoth= mass annihilation of the Biosphere (Edhli).
Guyst= daimon.
Nenning= energy.
Edhli-mind= the biospheric mind. Edhli-menning= ecological culture-civilization.
ernern= to rescue.
wyrdhe= to evolve.
tocume= future.
The Shaggy Mythos is evolving Deep Ecology religion, creative intuitive as well as rational intellectual, which draws on worldwide mythology and folklore as well as scholarly labors of thought, to uncover and reveal the truth of things. Herein you will learn of Feorgen of the Wyke, the Drygand and his Lode, the Searuvel and Dilgoth, and of the Menning and its Menschen, who all play their part in the titanic struggle of our time to save the Biosphere and thus ourselves-as-Ecological-Self.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
When the Earthen Dryg Rises
(word-help below)
When the earthen Dryg rises to twine his way up his Tree, as he winds his way up its bole, he flows like samen does a wending thread, he rises to the height of weighty boughs, of rich leafing, and in the most-midst he comes to stop, to dwell aloft a Tree, where Earth holds Sky. And o'er the land about, his greening heat he sheds, the livening warmth of Green-sun that's lain beneath the ground, now shines from him o'er all the life that sways now in galdor-song of rynisch weald the Land-dryg makes. The Land sings once more free.
Dryg= a (serpentine) Land-wight.
Samen= the Life-fluid.
Galdor= magic.
rynisch weald= mystery-power.
When the earthen Dryg rises to twine his way up his Tree, as he winds his way up its bole, he flows like samen does a wending thread, he rises to the height of weighty boughs, of rich leafing, and in the most-midst he comes to stop, to dwell aloft a Tree, where Earth holds Sky. And o'er the land about, his greening heat he sheds, the livening warmth of Green-sun that's lain beneath the ground, now shines from him o'er all the life that sways now in galdor-song of rynisch weald the Land-dryg makes. The Land sings once more free.
Dryg= a (serpentine) Land-wight.
Samen= the Life-fluid.
Galdor= magic.
rynisch weald= mystery-power.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Yrkuthor Thracks the Ittins
(word-help below)
Yrkuthor, red with wrath, drives his Wain about the Lands, always seeking to thrack Frostfire Ettins.
His Wain is drawn by his doughty Draginn. And in the Wain behind him sits the Drangstan of ozly weald, by which Yrkuthor can hurl his whitelight Samen-bolts to plock into Ittin-brawn, to burn and so thaw the frore Life-nennings, which Ittins draw off the Verden to drive their Searuvel. And so the Ittins must drop their grip, and the Nennings are freed to flow back into the Verden, to find their thwarly byzenings, so that Life may thrive.
And Yrkuthor smiles blithe.
Yrkuthor- ON Oeku-thorr (Ukkr, Thor: thunder-gods; or 'Thor the Cart-driver'?) irk/yrk- to drive, harry.
thrack- to attack, do violence to.
Wain- wagon.
Ittin- giant (OEng eoten, Eng it).
Draginn- ON draga- to draw, carry. He's a helping-daimon.
Drangstan- Stone of Power. ON drang- standing-stone, Ger drang- pressure, urge.
ozly weald- godly power.
Samen- the life-fluid.
Brawn- muscle, flesh.
frore- frozen.
Verden- the Life-world.
Searuvel- the Evil machine.
thwarly byzenings- intricate patternings.
Yrkuthor, red with wrath, drives his Wain about the Lands, always seeking to thrack Frostfire Ettins.
His Wain is drawn by his doughty Draginn. And in the Wain behind him sits the Drangstan of ozly weald, by which Yrkuthor can hurl his whitelight Samen-bolts to plock into Ittin-brawn, to burn and so thaw the frore Life-nennings, which Ittins draw off the Verden to drive their Searuvel. And so the Ittins must drop their grip, and the Nennings are freed to flow back into the Verden, to find their thwarly byzenings, so that Life may thrive.
And Yrkuthor smiles blithe.
Yrkuthor- ON Oeku-thorr (Ukkr, Thor: thunder-gods; or 'Thor the Cart-driver'?) irk/yrk- to drive, harry.
thrack- to attack, do violence to.
Wain- wagon.
Ittin- giant (OEng eoten, Eng it).
Draginn- ON draga- to draw, carry. He's a helping-daimon.
Drangstan- Stone of Power. ON drang- standing-stone, Ger drang- pressure, urge.
ozly weald- godly power.
Samen- the life-fluid.
Brawn- muscle, flesh.
frore- frozen.
Verden- the Life-world.
Searuvel- the Evil machine.
thwarly byzenings- intricate patternings.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Oekumensch: Driver of the Helg-wain
(word-help below)
The Oekumensch* drives the Helg-wain bearing the Weoh throughout the Landschaft, to wake the Land and Folk from the Time of Frost, the wintry Wasteland. Green springs again. The Edhli-menning calls.
*'oe' here stands for 0-umlaut, pronounced like 'eu' in French 'feu', approximately like 'eh' and 'ew' melded, or a softened 'ur'.
Oekumensch= Eco-man.
Helg-wain= sacred cart.
Weoh= an idol, sacred image.
Landschaft= landscape.
Edhli-menning= the Ecological Civilization.
Oekumensch <[aka(OIce)= to drive or draw a vehicle, to convey in a vehicle. ekja= carting. ekju-= cart-. Oekumadhr(Ice)= driver. Oeku-thorr-- a descriptor of Thor, possibly derived from the Finnish thunder-god Ukkr, but possibly also referring to Thor's famous cart. In pagan Scandinavia a sacred cart bearing an idol of a fertility god would be drawn around the land before springtime to bless the land and give it fertility of plants and animals. / Oekumene(OGk)= the inhabited world (~Biosphere)> oekumenisch(Ger)= ecumenical (universal). Oekologie= Ecology. Mensch= person.] So, Oekumensch= Eco-man, if this all makes sense.
The Oekumensch* drives the Helg-wain bearing the Weoh throughout the Landschaft, to wake the Land and Folk from the Time of Frost, the wintry Wasteland. Green springs again. The Edhli-menning calls.
*'oe' here stands for 0-umlaut, pronounced like 'eu' in French 'feu', approximately like 'eh' and 'ew' melded, or a softened 'ur'.
Oekumensch= Eco-man.
Helg-wain= sacred cart.
Weoh= an idol, sacred image.
Landschaft= landscape.
Edhli-menning= the Ecological Civilization.
Oekumensch <[aka(OIce)= to drive or draw a vehicle, to convey in a vehicle. ekja= carting. ekju-= cart-. Oekumadhr(Ice)= driver. Oeku-thorr-- a descriptor of Thor, possibly derived from the Finnish thunder-god Ukkr, but possibly also referring to Thor's famous cart. In pagan Scandinavia a sacred cart bearing an idol of a fertility god would be drawn around the land before springtime to bless the land and give it fertility of plants and animals. / Oekumene(OGk)= the inhabited world (~Biosphere)> oekumenisch(Ger)= ecumenical (universal). Oekologie= Ecology. Mensch= person.] So, Oekumensch= Eco-man, if this all makes sense.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Wild Man of the Fergen-geberg
The shaggy Wild Man dwells in the great range of forest-mountains where Samen* springs, where all the life-kinds fiercely feed and breed and thrive in a great ever-inwreathing of Life. And many of these do kill to eat and so to live. This is the way of the Edhli, as it has always been, as it can only be. It is terrible and it is beautiful-- it is Life. It is the way things are and we must accept it, for there is no soul-magic without it. And the wild, rude Man who dwells there, at one with all the kinds in the Fergen-geberg, is a hunter, a feeder on others; but in love, and in great soul-magic-- he is a protector of all life-kinds.
Fergen-geberg= the Life-mountains. geberg= mountain range (Ger. Gebirge); MEng gebergan= preserve, protect.
Samen= the sacred life-fluid. ~Vedic 'Soma'; Ger. Samen= seed.
Edhli= the Biosphere.
Fergen-geberg= the Life-mountains. geberg= mountain range (Ger. Gebirge); MEng gebergan= preserve, protect.
Samen= the sacred life-fluid. ~Vedic 'Soma'; Ger. Samen= seed.
Edhli= the Biosphere.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Alf-takn/Drygand-takn
The Alf-takn (symbol) is like a Roman 'A' with an added line downward from the middle of the horizontal. This bar and its support can also be made into a shape like a short, shallow chalice. The Drygand-takn is the Alf-takn inverted, so it is like a head with three horns (thry-hyrned) like that of an ancient depiction, apparently of a Scythian whirlwind-daimon having three 'horns'. These takns' similarity is appropriate because the Alfar are 'Sons of the Son', as the Drygand is the son of the Wolken (which in turn is the offspring of the Edhli).
Wolken= the Edhli-mind.
Wolken= the Edhli-mind.
Chosen Identity
One can make the choice that one's personal identity (self-cwide) fits the new ecological mazeway (the Menning) that is evolving (wyrdhing) . One can say,"I am of the Menning," and be a Menning-mensch. The Symbol (takn) of the Menning is the Eco-logo: an oval at rest with a horizontal bridging its extremes. The takn of the Menning-mensch is the same, but enclosing a line-figure with arms bent upward and legs bent downward, braced to support the Biosphere (Edhli) and its Menning.
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Lode Will Guide
A culture in byzantinish stagnation and rigidity threatened with internal disintegration and external assault might be revitalized by a new cultural mazeway of appropriate restorative and innovative elements in an array that creates a new sustainable equilibrium state.
We must look forward and backward at once, ransack cultures of all times and places, then, for the necessary elements. At this stage, we are in a kind of quest. Intellect alone will not suffice to 'engineer' a new ecological culture-civilization. We must be guided as well by promptings of the Deep Mind, because for a new mazeway to work on a large scale, it must feel profoundly right, it must inspire a settling of mind and life into a new pattern that in its fundamentals is plain enough to keep before one and to believe in, though the complexities of it are not to-hand but vanish into the distance all around.
The Lodestone is meant to guide our efforts toward a new Menning-mazeway of Ecology. It is born of the Wolken, the Deep Mind of the Biosphere, and is shaped by the questing minds of the Drygand, the Twayne, and the Alfs. The Lode will be your guide, if you seek it out, work to find it, and then it will arise in your Ferth* as the Green Sun of the Menning, to wodhen your wyrdhing*, and then the Firgen-wisdom* of the new Age of Ecology will run strong throughout you.
Ferth= psyche.
wodhen your wyrdhing= inspire your evolution.
Firgen (O Eng)= the Life-mountain (Earth).
Fjarg (O Norse)= heathen god.
Fjoergynn (O Nor)= Mother Earth.
We must look forward and backward at once, ransack cultures of all times and places, then, for the necessary elements. At this stage, we are in a kind of quest. Intellect alone will not suffice to 'engineer' a new ecological culture-civilization. We must be guided as well by promptings of the Deep Mind, because for a new mazeway to work on a large scale, it must feel profoundly right, it must inspire a settling of mind and life into a new pattern that in its fundamentals is plain enough to keep before one and to believe in, though the complexities of it are not to-hand but vanish into the distance all around.
The Lodestone is meant to guide our efforts toward a new Menning-mazeway of Ecology. It is born of the Wolken, the Deep Mind of the Biosphere, and is shaped by the questing minds of the Drygand, the Twayne, and the Alfs. The Lode will be your guide, if you seek it out, work to find it, and then it will arise in your Ferth* as the Green Sun of the Menning, to wodhen your wyrdhing*, and then the Firgen-wisdom* of the new Age of Ecology will run strong throughout you.
Ferth= psyche.
wodhen your wyrdhing= inspire your evolution.
Firgen (O Eng)= the Life-mountain (Earth).
Fjarg (O Norse)= heathen god.
Fjoergynn (O Nor)= Mother Earth.