Triple Synthesis

In the last paragraph of Mircea Eliade's three-volume A History of Religious Ideas (1985), he sees an analogy between "the Tibetan religious synthesis" and medieval Hinduism and Christianity in a mutual influence of a traditional religion founded on the idea of the sacred Cosmos and of a salvational religion and of an esoteric tradition.

I wondered if this triple synthesis could apply to modern ecological religion, and I came up with: sacred Cosmos nature-paganism from various world cultures, modern ecological salvationism; that is, the Deep Ecology movement, and Jungianism, its ideology and technique, at least as a starting point.  This amounts to 'the new ecological synthesis', if you will.

I then felt moved to come up with a name for this new religion in my own eormennisch terms: Weowyke (add '-had' instead of '-ism', if you feel it necessary.  Weoh (OEng)= sacred precinct, temple, altar.  And Wyke (Eor)= Biosphere.  So, an approximation of "sacred Cosmos".

Wykewyzen

An extremely simple, distinct, coherent, and powerful Idea is now necessary for planetary cultural transformation to save Life on Earth.  The Idea engenders a new paradigm, a totalizing worldview, an interpretive scheme into which everything fits, an Ethos.  And the Idea is Ecology-- Wykewyzen.

Wykewyzen is the Logos, it is the Dharma.  It is God.  Wykewyzen is the First Word and the Last Word.

"It's the ecology, stupid!" (ancient slogan) 

Descent of the Ganges

Go to wikipedia and then 'Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram)' and 'Bhagiratha'.  You will see lots of photos of a huge relief-sculpture with a Nagaraja in the cleft.  To me, the Nagaraja is the center of interest.  Almost all the 140ish figures face this cleft, from either side, and the Nagaraja is at the center of the cleft.  But he doesn't figure at all in the mythology of the descent of the Ganges, at least in that presented here.  So what-- he's still central.  And the only other photos I've been able to find of this sculpture-wall feature
the Nagaraja and his vicinity.  I xeroxed these photos from the public library art-books and have taped most of them around the walls of my inner sanctum.  I even made a necklace with the plaque a sort of icon featuring this figure (slightly altered) in a vague grotto, that shows him greenish, with the cobra-cowl, and a numinous green-gold aura of eastern onion-dome shape.  Awesome.  I'm wearing it now.  People must think I'm some sort of weirdo Hindu cultist.  I'm also working on another in which the figure is a closer fit to the frame, so it can be made-out better.  The head is not like in the original sculpture-- it is roundish, and like a smiling snake, with no ears or hair or headdress-- simple but ambiguous-numinous (beautiful but a bit scary).  Sorry I can't present a photo-- but it's better, I think, to make your own mind-picture from a description-- idols are too definite, and that robs them of their glamour, just like movies do to novels.  Anyway, I still thought you might get a buzz from seeing this famous, World Heritage Site figure, which to me is central-- pretty much the Drygand..   

Eorman the Bard

Eorman the Bard: "I sing the Wyke and Menning, the Ecological Self!"

Eorman the Bard: Mythopoet of Wykeness, Menning-singer of Eormanz, Thule of Selfhad.

He roars the Call of the Deep and his moving sway-galdor heals the Whole.

He sheds samen-shine in dance tracing the rightways amongst the wrongways for all to see.

His dryg-dreaming weaves the web-work of the New from what he feels and knows without/within and gives it back like a glowing glede to those who hear and see.

Eorman force of Nature, song of Earth.


Eorman= great one. Eormanz= the mystic romance of Life on Earth.
Wyke= Biosphere.
Menning= ecological civilization.
Thule= orator, advocate.
Sway-galdor= music.
Samen= intelligent life-energy.
Dryg= chthonic naga indwelling a site or a soul.
Glede= an ember, coal.

Naga-Shiva

Traditionally, the god Rudra-Shiva was associated with snakes (cobras) as well as with nagas, the were-snake creatures of the Hindu mythos.  I find a natural affinity of Rudra-Shiva and Nagaraja, so I propose 'Naga-Shiva' as a new persona, one that has some of the character of the ecological Drygand. 

Also, in ancient Greek religion, there was an approximate analogue in phallic-chthonic Hermes and the sacred temple snakes and also the the Agathos Daimones ('good daimons') who like nagas were sometimes depicted as were-snakes, albeit winged.   Both Hindu Rudra-Shiva-and-cobras/nagas as well as Greek Hermes-and-temple snakes/Agathos Daimones have been said to be pre-Aryan in origin.  Also, Rudra-Shiva and Hermes both possess a moral ambiguity and a disreputability redolent of the chthonic/asuran culture of the indigenous non-Aryan populations-- they were both patron gods of those of the disreputable and déclassé livelihoods one found amongst them. 

So I think that a combined snake-like Shiva-Hermes is a pretty adequate archaic archetype of the modern ecological Drygand, and if all this seems too madly chimaerical a god-synthesis-- go Deep.