The mythic primordial World-Serpent, the defender of the Tree of Life, culture-hero, civilizer of the human species, presided over a Golden Age of stability and good order. He tamed the wild biologic drives through his cunning and wisdom, his fertile creativity, his magic power, and harnessed them toward good order. He was a guide and wisdom-teacher to the worthy.
The basis for religion is the rite of offering of oneself to the god, founded on the survival-logic of reciprocity: you give so that you may get-- ultimately, the good order of balance and harmony of Man and Nature that one finds in pagan monist-pluralist religion: Nature is good to us if we are good to It.
But now there is no such religion, no such rite. We have a world culture of childish stupidity and irresponsibility, with consequent catastrophe for Man and Nature growing inexorably closer.
The Drygand is the mythic primordial World-Serpent reworked by the Wolken in response to the crisis, the vitalist biologic God of Good order. He now is Haelend-- savior-- and Eormen-Teev-- Supreme God. The survival-logic of the rite of reciprocity is now given force under a moral mandate of dualist-monotheist religion:"Save the Earth!" This is the higher purpose given to man, to bring him from his witless childhood into responsible maturity. The Drygand, as culture-hero and civilizer of modern Man, as wisdom-teacher and guide, by helping us both to take a giant step back, into primal archaic mind, thus reclaiming the long-buried powers of Nature-mind, and using these to drive us to take one giant step forward, into scientific, activist, and religious Ecological Mind, we evolve the Menning, the ecological civilization founded on the survival-logic of the rite of offering, that we might yet preserve both Man and Nature, and achieve a Grenegold Age of stability and good order.
Perform the rite of offering with your life and show your worth.
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