Feorgen Troth!

Whatever Nietzsche meant when he wrote,"Remain true to the Earth", transformed into Mythos terms it becomes "Keep troth with Feorgen".  And that means: "Uphold your bond with Feorgen in your mind and heart.  Don't let yourself be drawn-in and then trapped by the blandishments of an evil global culture to the point of accepting it as normal.  Find a way to stand apart from the wrong-headed human herd-- find your heroic myth and try to be it and live it.  Seek the support of the Powers of the Menning-within, the Otherworldly beings of the Mythos, who come from Feorgen and not the Searuvel.  Strive always to see the corrupted civilization around you with the grounded clearsighted realism that comes from the bond with Feorgen, who is biological Life itself.  And act, wherever and however possible, to advance the onset of his Menning".  Feorgen troth!

Feorgen= Biosphere God.
Menning(ON)= the ecological culture-civilization.
Searuvel= the Evil Machine.

The Indryg

In the inmost of each mensch lies his warding Indryg-- his Good Guyst-- wound into a whorl from which in his dreaming he shtrals his sidden throughout the body and mind.

But at need he wakes and unwinds to arise as a Hove-orm, ready to help his bearer as he may.

Indryg= one's inner guardian spirit (guyst).
Mensch(Ger)= person.
shtral(Ger)= to radiate.
Sidden= magical influence. OE siden.
Hove-orm= hovering wyrm, a winged serpent, much like the Greek Agathos Daimon ('good demon').

Feorgen, the Ealdor

Feorgen is the Old One, the biospheric God of Feorgen-berg-- "Life-mountain": planet Earth.  He is Elder God-- God of Life on Earth.  He is Edhli, He is Wolken, in One.  And He is suffering a human onslaught.  For that reason, the Mythos word for Ecology is Feorgeneru-- preservation of Life-- and those who work to save Feorgen are his Feorgenergends, saviors.

Feorgen= Father Earth. from ON Fjoergyn(oe~ o-umlaut)= Mother Earth (Fjoerginn is the male form). Fjoer= life (~OE Feorh). OE Firgen-= wooded) mountain. possible connection with Baltic thunder-god Perkunas('thunder'), Skt Parjanya(raincloud, god of rain), Slav Pergyni(mountain, wooded hill).
Ealdor(OE)= an elder, authority, ancient source; life, vital part.
Edhli(ON)= the Biosphere.
Wolken(Ger 'cloud'))= the biospheric mind.
Feorgener(OE)= preservation of life, Ecology. nerian= to save. Neriand/Nergend= savior.

The Answer

The postmodern condition, said by some to have arrived in the 1960s, has transcended us from the dualist-rationalist combats of modernism into a confusion of deracinated fragmentation ("pixelation"?), but a further transcending presents itself-- the Age of Ecology, which can be said to have officially arrived on April 22,1970-- Earth Day One.  In the Age of Ecology, ecology becomes the organizing principle.  No longer split dualism or polymorphous confusion, but simplicity, clarity, reality.  The criterion is "Is it ecological?"  People who see and think clearly know that this is the only hope for survival.  Everything else is catastrophic delusion and villainy.  It really is this simple-- ecology as the gravitational center of culture that like the Sun pulls all the bodies into orderly motion together.  The religious, the philosophical, the scholarly, the scientific, the economic, the political, the cultural-- everything falls within the dire survival mandate for ecologicality.  Ecology is the Answer, the Genius of the New World yet to manifest.  Will we make it so, or will the World go down with us as we engineer our doom?

A Sketch of the Development of "Ecology"

"Ecology"-- I mean in the cultural rather than the strictly biological sense-- is a modern development.  I see it as coming from the integration of mystical nature-romanticism, modern biological science, and utopian and transhuman moralities.  It came out of modern world-historical cultural evolution-- it could not have existed previously, not in the gestalt in which we now have it.  Crucial in its development were the Enlightenment and Romantic movements.  The necessary elements became available and combined over the 19th century and "Ecology" as an alternative civilization had been roughly formulated by World War I, I would say, particularly in the German- and English-speaking countries.  After this, expressions of the ecological world-view are seen in different times and places, but it became a world-wide mass-culture movement through the decade from the early 1960s to early 1970s.  And it was inextricably bound up with the Counterculture uprising which occurred then.

Since then, I don't see innovations in the ideology of "Ecology" as much as in expressions of it.  The foundation has been laid, and in the current phase we try to build something substantial and enduring on it.