apotropaic= meant to ward off evil.
Like the dragon of old, the Drygand counters the predator in us, that of us which preys on Nature and on each other. He maintains the just boundaries, protects the zones off-limits to us, attacks from the dark and strange liminal for the survival of Nature and Man, with moral force.
He is the scary monster of fearsome numinosity, the grotesque unnatural chimaera of predators, the instinctual brain-dragon taking demonic nightmare forms, who stuns and panics the evil transgressor, from the mind deeper than the ego-self, deeper, more ancient, entrenched in our own psyche, wreaking inexorable justice on the blithe human predator, overloading him with self-destructive chaos-madness.
For all this, though, to his human allies, the Drygand appears as beautiful, coherent, benevolent; he attacks only evil-doers, to ward this world, Only Home of Life.
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