A sequence of three mythic archetypes can be applied to the evolution of human culture and consciousness. The first stage was that of the Primordial Serpent. The second was of the Dragon. And the final stage is of the Naga.
This evolutionary progression of the human world (psyche/cosmos) takes the form of a dialectic: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, which can be characterized as monist, then dualist, then monist again.
The age of dreamlike numinous traditionalism and magical-mystical (analogic) thought gave way to one of radical innovation, cold-minded philosophy, and adversarial (analytical) thought, and finally to one of transcendent sophistication complexly integrating the former stages in its psychic economy, consciousness, culture, and civilization. This third stage is in the process of succession to dominance over the second, which has produced the present state of things. More to follow...
Naga (Skt)= cobra, snake, snake-deity. Hindu cobra-god, originally depicted as a cobra in ancient sculptures, but then as a weresnake with upper half human and lower half snake. eventually commonly depicted as human-form with a cowl of multiple cobra-heads in array rising behind its head.
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