Summer Sunsted Sagen (completed)

Who is to drive this equipage of Lode and Twayne?

The Alwight would enter one species after the other, like a serial incubus, promiscuously loving them, being them, leaving them for the next in an endless progression through the fauna (even some of the flora) of the planet.  He had had relations with humans, of course, though as they grew away from the way of Earth and natural animality, he found he sought out the more feral and immature of them.  He found humans interesting, they had potential, but he didn't see how they could go on much longer as they had.

Bilwit and Wildiar made their way under the guidance of the Lodestone.  Sometimes they were obliged suddenly to change direction as if their quarry was jinking about from place to place.  In the end, it was the lure of the Stone that brought them to him, or rather him to them, as he had sensed something distant he must find.

And he found two travellers, who were unusual, even for humans.  And they carried something among the effects in their travel sacks.  Was it alive? or some strange human device?  Or was it possibly a hailstone from the Wolken, his misty Mother-- what?!  He had flown to find them in the body of an eagle, and spotting them he swooped into that of a giant cobra sunning on a bank between the river and the trail they were on. 

As a cobra, he reared up and asked "What do you carry, eh?"  Whatever it was, it fairly quaked with numinosity.  The astonished twins threw down their rucksacks and Wildiar reached in his and extracted a screaming lump blazing greengold.

Bilwit gave the cobra an arch look and spake, "Sir Snake, we have brought a wain-and-pair to convey you.  Would you have it?"  Sir Snake gazed archly back.  "Let me try it," he replied.  So Wildiar and Bilwit nodded to each other, Wildiar takes hold with his brother of this tempestuous lump, which then goes quite still, though it still blazes mutedly, heavy with power.

Sir Snake inclines his great head as they approach and as they raise the Lodestone toward it, the lump fairly leaps into his skull, and he shudders, then dissolves into a vortex of life-forms revving faster than the eye can catch.  The Twayne have jerked back, awestruck by this spectacle.  Lightning flashes within the rapid-writhing shape, but then it rises, becoming columnar, and they see that it has become a tornado that is a vast Tree, with many roots branching into the earth, many branches anastomosing into the sky, from its stout mighty trunk.

And it is screaming to the far reaches of the planet, and flashing darkness and light.  And then it goes mild and shrinks down into the form of a man-snake, upper body manlike, lower body snakelike, with the head a bit of both.  This man-snake says to them "I accept your gift."  And hereupon he claps a palm to each of their skulls and clasps both to his own, and something passes into them as they stand stock still.

A good while later, they all shift and separate, and look at each other knowingly and the man-snake says "You were Twayne become Wayne and in giving me the Lodestone have I too become Wayne,  no longer the playfully promiscuous rover but a single consistent being focused on saving the Living Planet from destruction.  And you, my fine team of steeds, shall be my first Thanes, and we will go everywhere and bestow the Lode wherever it can be received, and do our best to save Mankind before it destroys the Holy Edhli."

He smiles snakily, and all over the world the Wolken, too, grins for she has just changed into Feorgen, Father Earth, no longer diffuse as a mind-cloud, but sharp-focused, just as is his new Son, the Drygand.  And this equipage of world-historical import, Drygand, Twayne, and Wain, fare forth to progress through the whole world as the Drygand commands: "Let us go and make Menning, for All Life on Earth!'  And so they did, and here we are.

Summer Sunsted Sagen

(word-help below)

The Wayne, which was One, became the Twayne, who were separated at birth.  One was Bilwit, who was raised to become a leader of his folk.  The other was Wildiar, who was left to become a feral wild man of the wood.

When they were of an age, they both felt the other out there somewhere, and that they needed to find him, this twin brother, and so be reunited with him: the Light and the Dark, the Aerial and the Chthonic, the High and the Deep.

Bilwit had heard of a wild man whom some had gone to for help in runisch matters, and he decided to seek him out himself.  He found him at the threshhold of the Dark Forest, living rough.  This Wildiar was intent, like a predator toward his prey, and weird of mien, but he greeted his brother and offered him the hospitality of his humble camp, and said that he had expected him.

The two brothers could not be more different, and alien of each other.  But as they met in moot, they began to become more like to each other, and came somehow to fit to the other as if they were a well-matched team.  But as a team they felt they lacked a Wain to draw, and a Driver.

Wildiar, who knew of uncanny things, said they must go far into the Wilderness until they came upon the Midsted of the Deepness, where they would find a treasure meant for them alone.

And so with the wit of Bilwit and the skill of Wildiar, they made a wending way through the Dark Forest until they arrived at the very spot, of strong numinosity: a glade where sat a huge round gem of greengold glow, set in a hump of weathered mossy rock.

It was the Lodestone, a lump of crystalized Samen-flowod formed in the Womb of the Wolken, the misty Mind of Nature.  It was shapen like to the Wykewyzen Sinnbild and had been begot to answer the threat to the Edhli of the depredations of Man.

This much was vouchsafed to them both when the Stone had come freely away into their hands and they saw then that it had drawn them to find it.  But now it sealed their wayneness, and as a perfect team, they at last had their Wain to draw: the Lode.  But who then to drive?  (to be continued)

Sunstede(OEng)= solstice. Sagen= mythic tale.
Wayne= the One, Whole. Twayne= the Twins.
Bilewit(OEng)= innocent, pure, simple, sincere, mild, gentle, merciful, gracious, blithe.
Wildiar= 'wild animal'. Chthonic= of the earth, the underworld.
Wain= wagon, chariot.
Runisch= weird, mystic.
Midsted= center.
Lodestone= guide-stone.
Samen-flowod= the vital fluid.
Wolken(Ger)/Wolcen(OEng)= cloud.
Wykewyzen Sinnbild= Ecology symbol (Ger. Sinnbild).
Edhli= the Biosphere.

 

Nagaland

The Naga (Hindu were-snake) is the 'symbol of uniting' of Nature (as the Uroboros) with Man, Unconscious with conscious ego, inner with outer worlds, in Ecology: human Self united with biospheric Self.  The Drygand is the Naga.

Uroboros= mythical primeval World Snake, depicted in a circle, head to tail. Symbol of undifferentiated psyche (=Nature).
Self= the Whole of Nature-mind, and of the human psyche.
Drygand= undifferentiated Nature-mind, as shape-shifting Alwight, adjunct of Wolken, transformed to Self in both senses by the consequences of human consciousness evolution.

The Choice

Humanists will end as machine intelligences.  Ecologists will remain biologicals.

The Age of Ecology

In the early first millennium A.E., Ecology became the core authority, the culture-Idea, having prevailed over once-dominant Humanism, its values accepted as valid because they are necessary to survival.  As the ruling archetype, Ecology has the power to shape the expression of instinct, and so a new type of man develops: the ego-self of Humanism gives way to Ecological Self.