Genius Creativity

A work of genius creativity often requires a favorable zeitgeist and circumstance and a culture-civilization sufficiently stable and functional to provide a ground to the mind, without which it lacks the security and confidence to reach forth boldly and to see well what it has accomplished.  This we have now come to lack; we flounder instead in a welter of confusion with nowhere to stand and stay. We are but as if lost in space, dodging whizzing satellites and silent deadly space debris, helpless to create art and meaning.

But there is also the genius creativity that comes from the mind in extremis hitting bottom, reduced to the utter limit of endurance, when the brain-mind goes into overdrive, reengineering the psyche in a last desperate wrench at salvation.  Can we hope for this? that in just one mind somewhere on the planet this would arrive.  But would it then be heard around the world and got?

Synergos

Synergos (Gk 'working together'): a chimaeric entity that integrates around a synthetic idea, forming a coherent entity whose character transcends those of its constituent parts.

Gary Snyder suggested something like a synergos of the world heritage of myth and folklore with modern 'Ecology' (a romantic linking-back, then) that would be a new level of mythos which could serve as the basis for a new world culture of 'Deep Ecology'.

Escape Artist

We have taken to deracinated escape into confusions of artificiality and enervating negations, high-speed assaults of meaninglessness.  The mind flounders, is reduced to a minimal coping strategy in a state of hopeless flux-interruption.  We are unmoored, vitiated, without hope or horizon.  The forlorn person fades to a ghost in the machine, an escape artist trapped in their illusionist apparatus.

Velend the Artificer

Velend is the Artificer, the creator of and, consequently, the slave of the Searuvel.  And he is Master of the Dwergs, his workers, who mass-produce his inventions to spread the thralldom of Searuvel to every nook and cranny of the planet.

Velend= the Smith God (ONorse Volundr, OEng Weland, mod Eng Wayland).  Vel (ONor)= artifice, device, machine.
Searuvel= the Evil machine. OEng searu= cunning device (~ vel, then). Ger uvel= evil.
Dwerg= dwarf. OEng dweorg, ONor dvergr (?~ OEng thweorh, ONor thverr= perverse).

Neorxna, Genius of New Lifeforms

Neorxna the wunderkind, spinning out budding fractal globes of grenegold life wherever he goes, GreneSun shining as he steps a greening way, this wild evergreen youth: Neotene, Neomorphogen, Metamorphogen.

Where there has been damage and destruction, biotic and mental, he will manifest new forms of life to begin to restore the wild integrity and fullness, Wasteland burgeons toward Neorxnawang.

Wunderkind (Ger)= infant prodigy.
Neotene= 'youth-retaining one'.
Neomorphogen= producer of biological structures that haven't evolved from a similar ancestral structure.
Metamorphogen= producer of change from one form to another as if by sorcery.
Neorxnawang (OEng)= Elysian Fields, Paradise.

Romantic Emergency

Romanticism is a link-back to the animist primitive numinous.  It is dualist-extremist, it yearns for spiritual rebirth and also physical liberation, it is idealistic and worldly-wise, it is magical-mystical and naturalist Nature-loving, it is worshipful of the highest but avid for the allure of the base, it is passionate-intuitive and coolly cerebral, it is revolutionary and conservative, but above all, it promises reformation, rebirth, of the primal source energies pouring into new, more fitting archetypal expressions, like a metamorphosis of the gods.

And now, as global apocalypse laps at the door, giving us only a choice of "evolve or die", of freeze, flight, or fight for the survival of all life, Romanticism breaks out in a global eruption of the collective Unconscious, manifesting its titanic survival drives in universal ecological archetypal symbols, charged compelling images, ideas.

A rough beast emerges with the expectation of the end of the World, bearing fierce salvation into the New.

Biological Confirmation

God is the Fullness of Nature within-without (the Ecological Self of Romanticism), as is confirmed by modern biology-- evolution, ecology, psychology.

The Serpent's Reply

Overweening reason and intellect can induce a compensating irrational monster (the Searuvel) against a feared nonrational power-within (the Serpent).  But to this monster the Serpent can reply, manifesting as the Drygand.

Enough

We are only forced restlessly to search ever for the new and better because we don't experience the creative inspiration of the Fullness of All-Life, which ever morphs but goes nowhere-- there's nowhere to go-- it's all Here, and it's vast, inexhaustible, and it's enough.

Snake-staff

The Snake-staff is the symbolic weapon of the Thane, a link-rod that shorts-out, grounds, the power of the Searuvel, shooting it back to the earth, the chthonic Ground, the primordial Serpent from which comes All.  And so, the Searuvel loses Allure and Power, it is seen to be soulless, void.

By taking up the snake-staff in his grip, the thane may then wield it for the good of All Life.  And what power has been stolen from the Searuvel is given to the Drygand and his thanes to aid their terrific purpose.