Saca(OEng)= opponent, foe. Andsaca= adversary. and- (OEng/ONor)= opposite, against (~anti-). Andskoti(ONor)= adversary, devil, Satan. ~OEng Sceadha= injurious person, antagonist, devil. ~Eng Scathe. thus: Andscathe(Eormanz).
Haelend(OEng)= savior.
The Drygand and the Searuvel are andsacas. Both are extrahuman powers, similar in some ways, as they must be, for the Drygand to be able to replace the Searuvel, but fundamentally they are different: opposites, adversaries. The following pairs of opposites show the oppositeness of their natures.
Drygand-- Searuvel.
transhuman Agathodaimon (good, Haelend)-- dehuman Kakodaimon (bad, evil, Andscathe).
organic manimal-- bionic android.
Jungian ecologism-- Nietzschean humanism.
earth-- outer space.
integrated biospheric Self (Psyche/Biosphere)-- unmoored ego (often possessed).
modest Mensch-- overweening Ubermensch.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
Wyrm History
Wolcen(OEng)= cloud, sky; ball, lump. Wolken(Ger)= cloud.
Wyrm(OEng)= worm, snake, reptile, dragon. Urwyrm= the primordial wyrm.
Samen(Ger)= seed, sperm.
The Urwyrm meanders throughout the warm earthen seed-bed of the Wolken, the biospheric mind inhabiting its biotic dream. This hermaphroditic worm luxuriates in this fertile matrix rich in its castings, feeds on the Wolken's samen, the vital fluid, and the warmth of gestation incubates the consumed samen in the worm's fore-end into a mazeway-pattern of condensed life-knowledge, becoming its brain-mind.
In time, the Wolken is more like a misty cloud in which the samen further condenses in the wyrm's brain like mist does into hailstone, and so the Lodestone forms. The Urwyrm now is more like an aerial serpent weaving in and out of this vast cloud, crackling with lightning-flashes.
In time further, when the Lode is fully forged, it falls to earth, to the center of all things, where it waits and calls to the Twayne-- Bilwit and Wildiar. And thus begins the foundational myth of the Mythos, in which the seed-crystal of the Urwyrm melds with the brain-mind of the Alwight, and the Drygand is born.
Note: In the world of the deep mind, things can mysteriously transmute and form odd conjunctions, as they do in dreams, and so do they here, but not nonsensically-- it all means something important. It's evocative, suggestive, vague, intuitive, rather than sharp, clear, and rational.
Wyrm(OEng)= worm, snake, reptile, dragon. Urwyrm= the primordial wyrm.
Samen(Ger)= seed, sperm.
The Urwyrm meanders throughout the warm earthen seed-bed of the Wolken, the biospheric mind inhabiting its biotic dream. This hermaphroditic worm luxuriates in this fertile matrix rich in its castings, feeds on the Wolken's samen, the vital fluid, and the warmth of gestation incubates the consumed samen in the worm's fore-end into a mazeway-pattern of condensed life-knowledge, becoming its brain-mind.
In time, the Wolken is more like a misty cloud in which the samen further condenses in the wyrm's brain like mist does into hailstone, and so the Lodestone forms. The Urwyrm now is more like an aerial serpent weaving in and out of this vast cloud, crackling with lightning-flashes.
In time further, when the Lode is fully forged, it falls to earth, to the center of all things, where it waits and calls to the Twayne-- Bilwit and Wildiar. And thus begins the foundational myth of the Mythos, in which the seed-crystal of the Urwyrm melds with the brain-mind of the Alwight, and the Drygand is born.
Note: In the world of the deep mind, things can mysteriously transmute and form odd conjunctions, as they do in dreams, and so do they here, but not nonsensically-- it all means something important. It's evocative, suggestive, vague, intuitive, rather than sharp, clear, and rational.
Monday, August 11, 2014
'Our' Monster
It might be wise to 'civilize' the instinctual shadow-monsters of the Deep Mind in anticipation of a looming survival threat else they erupt in raw form and overthrow the fragile, civilized ego-mind, make them instead controlled forces for adaptation to crisis, rather than have them agents of chaos-- panic, psychic immobilization, paranoia and atrocities, grasping at the nearest means offering salvation, or worse. Cultures do this archetype shaping in anticipation of possible emergency, seeking to tame the raw archaic instinctual response, making it 'our' monster.
However, there is a possibility that an adapted monster will revert to type, just as a dragon-slaying Hero-archetype figure often becomes the next dragon-monster-- though the dragon-energies were originally assimilated and used for good, they turn bad. A possible way to maintain the line between good and bad is through the influence of an even more powerful archetype-- the Uber-Self, or God, or whatever you want to call it. But even that can turn bad, as we know, so nothing is foolproof.
Jung came to the conclusion that unleashing the instinctual powers on a mass level in order to drive necessary adaptation was too dangerous-- only an elite of highly-trained persons could perhaps engage and handle them wisely. Maybe so. Maybe a class of something like Jungian druids, acting as an evaluating, guiding, even steering, institution might come to be seen as necessary to keep civilization from going wrong, though my skeptical modern mind finds this unlikely to come about, and in a form that worked. But if the threat to survival is unmistakeable, one must try to invoke 'our' monsters, I suppose, rather than to continue to do nothing. Dragons, anyone?
However, there is a possibility that an adapted monster will revert to type, just as a dragon-slaying Hero-archetype figure often becomes the next dragon-monster-- though the dragon-energies were originally assimilated and used for good, they turn bad. A possible way to maintain the line between good and bad is through the influence of an even more powerful archetype-- the Uber-Self, or God, or whatever you want to call it. But even that can turn bad, as we know, so nothing is foolproof.
Jung came to the conclusion that unleashing the instinctual powers on a mass level in order to drive necessary adaptation was too dangerous-- only an elite of highly-trained persons could perhaps engage and handle them wisely. Maybe so. Maybe a class of something like Jungian druids, acting as an evaluating, guiding, even steering, institution might come to be seen as necessary to keep civilization from going wrong, though my skeptical modern mind finds this unlikely to come about, and in a form that worked. But if the threat to survival is unmistakeable, one must try to invoke 'our' monsters, I suppose, rather than to continue to do nothing. Dragons, anyone?
Monday, August 4, 2014
Mythimage
The Wolken-- primeval Nature-mind-- is rendered as a six-color rainbow-cloud all rounded and humpy like a cumulus cloud. All about its wide-ovate form, Nessie-like arcs break the surface-- this is the Urwyrm, the primeval Serpent which snakes all through the cloudy mass, conducting Samen-flowod throughout, connecting every part of the Wolken. Over the humpy surface flashes appear in different colors. And an inner glow can be discerned-- this is from the gestating Lodestone, the jade pearl of ecological wisdom, forming gradually from samen depositing in intricate intelligent patterns, that lies at the heart of the foundational myth of the Shaggy Mythos.
Wolke(Ger)/Wolcen(OEng)= cloud.
Samen(Ger)= seed, sperm. the vital fluid.
Wolke(Ger)/Wolcen(OEng)= cloud.
Samen(Ger)= seed, sperm. the vital fluid.
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