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.
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