LIVE/EVIL

The Drygand is Animan: half Animal/half Man, a projection of Biospheric Mind into Man. He is the Live God (biological), drawing humans toward Nature-order and wholeness of Self.

The Searuvel is Android: half Man/half  Machine, a projection of human mind into impersonal technology.  It is the Evil Machine, man-made, but ever-escaping from sane control, drawing humans into a disjunct artifice of Shadow.

The Good God

"Humans are evil by nature and require an Other-power to keep them on track."  Terrible but nonetheless true.

Drygand, defender of Wyke and Feorgen, of Good greater than good-and-evil; he is the Genius of Good-- the Agathos Daimon.  By his sidden and his wiles he seeks ever to beguile those who persist in wrongness, and turn them to Right Good.  And there are those true to him who seek to help him in his work and are helped in turn.

Drygand, being God Within and Without, is thus inescapable-- we are all caught between, as he has us on both sides.  Therefore, the Caduceus, the twice-entwined snake-staff, symbolizes his power over us, the poor stick in the middle.  The 'outer' snake is the Nagaraja, guardian of Sacred Nature (Wyke), and the 'inner' is the Kundalini, who rises from the Deep-within.  Together, they make the Agathos Daimon which is Drygand, who turns the wicked, wayward human in its coils toward Good, from stick to staff.

Wyke= the dwelling of Life: the Biosphere.
Feorgen= biospheric Mind: Father Earth.
Agathos Daimon(Gk)= guardian spirit and helper.
Sidden(OEng siden)= magical influence.

Feorgen and Drygand

Feorgen is God of All Life, World Soul, Father Earth, Eormengand the World-girdling Serpent.

And Drygand is his offshoot, his agency, the face and force he turns toward Man.

Feorh(OEng, also 'feorg')= life. Fjarg(ONor)= heathen god. Fjarghus= temple. Fairhus(Goth)= world. Firgen(OEng)= mountain. Fjorgyn(ONor)= Mother Earth. Fjorgynn= an epithet used of Odinn.

Eormen-(OEng, ~ONor Jormun-)= great, vast. Gand(ONor)= something magical; i.e. serpent, staff, wizard/witch. Jormungand(ONor)=the Midgard(Earth) Serpent.

Dry(OEng~Kelt. drui, as in 'druid')= magician, magic. Any etymological resemblance of 'Drygand' to 'dragon' is entirely fortuitous.

Dare the Drygand

Drygand looms from the dark of the Deep and hoves there where the known becomes the unknown, the light of knowledge becomes the dark of wisdom, man becomes animal.  There he presides, the dark Nature-god of dark power.  He embodies the survival drive of the Life-tribe, the terrible purpose.  He is trickster and culture-hero, helper and guide of his people.  He is Good beyond good, he fights Evil beyond evil, but cannot do it alone-- he needs our loyalty and service, to save Life-on-Earth, to cast down the Searuvel.

Drygand is Haelend, the hope sent to us.  Meet him half-way, at the center, at the axis of turning, the fulcrum of shifting.  He is God within, God without, and we can be at the in-between, where he dwells in us.  We cannot do it alone, we must dare the Drygand.

Searuvel (Eor)= the Evil Machine.
Haelend (OEng)= savior.