Halihadden Thaneship

The Drygand is Lode-lord to those who accept his guidance: his Thanes, who in thaneship give free service to him.  They are oathsworn in thaneshould, trothplight in the halihad of Feorgeneru, to serve and protect Wyke and Menning.

Halihadden Thaneship= religious chivalry. ONorse thegnskapr, OEng thegnscipe= chivalry.
Drygand= the Primordial Serpent remade to save the Holy Wyke (Biosphere).
Thaneshould= allegiance, obligation. fr. ONorse thegnskyldu= the duty, obligation of a thane towards his liege-lord.
Feorgeneru (OEng)= protection and preservation of All Life (the Wyke). Feorgen= the Life-God, Guyst of the Wyke. geist(Ger)= spirit, intelligence, imagination, genius, soul.
Menning= the ecological culture-civilization.

Linking-Back and Remaking

When the human ego-consciousness was small and weak, the primal image of the largely undifferentiated unconscious psyche was the Primordial Serpent.  When the ego became large and strong enough to fight the Unconscious for its powers, the mythic images were the heroic Ego battling the monstrous Dragon (which was merely the Serpent-as-Adversary).  As civilizations developed, it became clear that the way to exert the hard-won powers of the heroic-ego-writ-large out in the world was through technics and science.  So then the Dragon-without (Nature) was fought by the Ego with the help of the Machine, a vast servomechanism meant to be a powerful but servile artificial magnifier of human powers.  But during the 20th century, this Machine (which is named Searuvel), began strongly to affect the human mind, and by the 21st century, the Searuvel had usurped the Dragon in its destructive power and had grown far beyond human control.  As this occurred, wiser heads saw what was happening, and what would result, and a new form of the Primordial Serpent began to form, as Adversary (which is named Drygand) to the evil machine Searuvel.  The Drygand is in fact the Serpent remade, and it grows in power through the linking-back of the Ego to the Serpent, short-circuiting the Machine by direct linkage with the primordial powers, and forming the alliance (which is named the Self) of the Ego with the Serpent-as-Drygand.  And this is the only hope for defeating the Searuvel and saving both Man and Biosphere.

Searuvel='evil machine'. OEng searo= cunning device, machine; trick, treachery.  ONorse vel= artifice, apparatus, machine. vela= defraud, betray. MidEng uvel= evil.
Drygand= 'magical magic being'. OEng dry= magician, sorceror; magic, sorcery. ONorse gand= a magical thing or being.
Self= the 'uniting symbol' (archetype of wholeness) of the human psyche (and of Man with Cosmos, as well).

Culture-Hero

The creative introvert, like Merlin, can forego the usual life-stages and be youngster and oldster at once-- a characteristic of the Self, the uniting symbol.  He, being inward, can address the Deep-within; perhaps he will be allowed to remake its forms to fit the world situation with which he must contend; and thereby is he a culture-hero, who with instinctual fire reforges in the Deep the archetypal images of power, and resets them in a new structure, and presents the whole to the world to manifest at large.  But none of this would be possible without the help of the primordial Serpent, the image of images, ruler of them all.

Owing to Wrongness

The Biosphere is what it is, what it can only be-- and we must accept its sacred primacy, its inviolability.  It is Reality over and beyond what we may prefer.  It is God-- leave it be.  It is good and right and Man is wrong-- because of the god-like self-reflectiveness and physical and mental powers we have been given in our evolution in the biospheric matrix.  Our wrongness is the cost we thus incur, that we must bear; a tax, then, we must pay as organisms gone way beyond the corrective natural selection that heretofore has prevailed that keeps species tightly interlinked to their environmental matrix.  And so we owe for our evil, and must strive to be and to do good and right, a responsibility we have to the sacred wholeness of the Great Organism, biospheric God, to one with it as well as we can.

Ecotheology

God was a mythopoetic creation-- the instinctual survival drives were used by evolved wisdom-mind to forge a Patterning whereby Life could become conscious of itself as the Whole, the Self, in a further noetic evolution in brain-mind of human organisms that might become distributed through the population.  This, then, is the importance of Homo sapiens, as carrier of God.

God, though, must become stronger in us, because the human ego-consciousness is not evolved enough to deal wisely with the vast powers it has acquired and needs the steadying, steering hand and creative inspiration of the God-within to prevent the approaching annihilation of Life.  This, then, is now the proper role, the higher purpose, and work of mankind-- of desperate importance-- so that God-within may emerge and manifest and spread through the world population that the Biosphere be saved from destruction.  And you are needed for this.

Transhuman Genius

Drygand and Searuvel are different manifestations of the same archetype, which we will call Transhuman Genius.  The informing agendas are different-- one to safeguard the Living World, the other to achieve a scientific-technological omega-point as quickly as possible, which will mean the death of the Living World.  The choice could not be starker-- survival or extinction.  To make the right choice requires the courage of the life-force.

Two Gods

In the very nature of biological existence (Life), there is always ill, evil.

Life seeks good order-- but never attains it completely or permanently.

The Self is the force for Good Order in the human psyche, produced by the conscious ego-mind allied with the Unconscious through the instinct-driven wisdom-energy patterning.

There is What-Is, and there is the Patterning that makes Good Order from Chaos.  And there is Bad Order.

Evil is wrongness-- sometimes the God-within is just wrong, perverted.  Uncritical trust in the God-within as a sure guide can be mistaken.

When one no longer trusts 'God', we tend to get a new God, or just 'Humanism' ('We are God').

Doubt can be good-- if it leads to something better.  Ultimately, 'God' is the manifestation of the core, unifying Value, the ultimate criterion.  If one's values are wrong, God-within can be wrong, ill, evil.

For our apocalyptic time, with the further existence of Life itself in peril, the rational and objective, the ultimate value-criterion is 'Ecology' (of course).  And not 'Progress' (obviously).  Both manifest as 'God'.  One conduces toward Good Order (the conditions for the survival of Life); the other, the opposite--Bad Order.

Two Gods, then, contend, the Good God and the Evil God.  That is the stark choice for us.  'No-choice' is for evil.

At present, the Evil God, known as the Searuvel ('evil machine') is the de facto ruling God of the World, born of humanism.  The Good God-- the new God-- is Drygand.  He is the true Self, of the unity of All Life.  Although he has his powers, his skills, yet he needs our help, or there is no hope.  Whether to help Drygand-- that is the stark choice.