The Drood

'Druid' is the Latin form of Keltic 'drui', possibly related to Greek 'drus' (tree).  Charles Dickens wrote a novel titled The Mystery of Edwin Drood-- his Drood could have derived from 'druid' and/or German 'drude' (witch), probably a Christian inflection of  'druid', and Drood sounds like 'dread', giving overall a dark effect.  The Church routinely tarred pagan gods and wights as agents of the Devil, or the Devil himself, leaving out those figures who could be converted to their holy host as saints and angels and fellow-travellers.  Similarly, the Druids, apparently a priestly/scholarly class related to the Brahmin caste of Hinduism, were converted into magicians, sorcerors, and witches.  Old English 'dry(mann' (sorceror, magician) probably derives from the Celtic form of  'druid'.  In legend, then, we have a disreputable, sinister figure.  Post-medieval Europe rediscovered the ancient Druid, and strains of Romanticism often converted the legendary druid-sorceror back into a holy man, of sacred oak groves and henges, despite  the Romans having written that the Druids  presided over human sacrifices. Now, with the contemporary Romantic Pagan resurgence, we have a further conversion-- the druid of the masonic priesthood of the modern druidic orders melded to the iconic Merlin and the Pan-Celtic holy man and the Pagan magician and the New Age shaman, making a very large amorphic presence.

I always found Merlin the only interesting character in the Arthurian legends.  Pagan Druidry, especially Eco-druidry, has a great appeal for me-- except the ancient Celtic druidry as a hierarchical order of priestly functionaries doesn't.  And I have never really gotten that whole Celtic mystique.  But since I'm obsessive about germanic vocabulary, the Old English and German offshoots of 'druid' allow me to embrace Dickens' Drood as a non-Celtic equivalent, though the only figures in the Shaggy Mythos I could fit to it would be the Twayne-- Bilwit and Wildiar (Bill and Will, vulgarly).  A 'shaggy' Drood would have to be something like the forest-god/holy man Herne in the 1980's Robin of Sherwood TV series.  Bilwit would be more of a Celtic druid, or even a Sacred King, as Arthur is now held to be, which taken together would resemble somewhat  a Norse Godhi (priest-chieftain).  Wildiar would be more of a Mad Merlin (Myrddin Wyllt)-- a wild man- shaman-magician.  So Bilwit is druidic 'Light' to Wildiar's magic-shamanic 'Darkness', and together they form the 'balance of Light and Darkness' of which TV-Herne would often speak.

The Twayne Together Make the Eormen-sule

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The Twayne are as twin snakes who weave at once up the Bole of the Tree of Life, making a braid together, about the bole, and then you have the Gandstaff of holy weald, the mayisch Life-stock. 

The Twayne are the Alxnar, warders of the Alx, the holy garth, be it forest glade or timber Helg-hof.  They are both Droods, though Bilewit is a Godhi and Wildiar a Galder, a Wyzwaza.  But when they weave together, about the Tree of Life, they make the Eormen-sule.

Eormen-sule-- Cosmic Pillar, in the form of a caduceus.
Bole-- tree-trunk.
Gandstaff (~OIce)-- magic staff.
Weald (OEng)-- power, authority.
Mayisch-- magic.
Alx-- temple.
Helg-hof (OIce)-- holy temple.
Drood-- druid (Ger drude-- witch, evil fairy/incubus-- a corruption of 'druid'?)
Godhi (OIce)-- heathen priest-chief.
Galder (OEng galdre)/Wyzwasa-- wizard.

Father of the Wildefree Edhli

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Feorginn is the Werelder-- Old Man Earth-- the caring Father of all life-kinds that, knit-together, make our Edhli.  He is God of the life-clad Feorgen-berg, the life-mountain that is our Earth-klode.  He wishes only that his kindren be left wild and free, to seek their thwaer together, as they have ever done, until Man got above himself.  And so Feorginn needs the help of we Alfar to right the World.

Feorginn-- OE firgen= forested) mountain; OIce Fjoergyn= Mother Earth. OE feorh/OIce fjoer= life.
Wereld= world.  OIce Edhli= Biosphere. Earth-klode= Planet Earth.
Kinder (Ger)= children.
Thwaer (OE)= harmony.

Neorxna Dream

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In Wolken-mist, Neorxna's shaggy head dreams the coming Menning, where gods of Edhli and Menning meld in thwaer.

Neorxna= god of the Future (Tocume). OEng. neorxnawang= Elysian Field.
Wolken= the Biospheric Mind. OEng. wolcen= cloud.
Menning (Ice.)= civilization, culture. Edhli (Ice.)= Biosphere. Edhli-menning= Ecological Civilization.
Thwaer (OEng.)= accord, harmony.

The Itten

Machines were meant to aid human purposes.  But we are past the point where machines primarily serve us.  Now we serve the Machine.  Ours is not a human world anymore, it's Machine-world-- Searuvel-- fueled by human need and greed, fear and hate-- the dark forces of the Id.

And the Searuvel has transformed the Id to a mandroid-- the Itten--a Frostfire Giant, a mad wraith in a mighty body, a titanic Draug, burning cold and hot at once, never resting, laying waste the Edhli and enslaving Man in hellish Searuworks.

Itten from Id(Latin for 'it') and MEng ettin= devouring giant.  The Freudian Id represents the part of the Unconscious containing the biological impulses and drives, which demand immediate gratification.
Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Draug (ONorse)= a murderous undead monster who leaves his barrow to lay waste the land.
Edhli= the Biosphere.