The Chthonic Phallic Drygand

The Chthonic Phallic Drygand is shaped like the Ithyphallos, his lower, snake-half coiled like a spring full of latent power, ready to launch himself from his earth-base.  His lower half represents power ready to release, the raw biological power of hunger, sex, aggression; his upper, humanoid half the subtle nous using it, of perception, intelligance, knowledge and wisdom.  Together they form the formidable Projectile of Life, which is its greatest Hope: the Ecological Self, the Drygand.

The Guide to the Path to the Pathless

The creative individual is one who follows the path of the mythopoetic imagination, driven by the inner daimon (Indryg) into the pathless forest: the mythic Greenwood, with nothing to guide him except his own wits and the promptings of the daimon.  The daimon represents the instinctive, unconscious will, more powerful than the conscious will.  The creative individual, then, as Jung says, has little power over his own life, is not free, but captive and driven by his daimon, so he is not merely, as Guide, an advising, helping spirit but a demanding god: the God-within, the Self, his personal god.  He must make known to himself that which the daimon demands of him and must act on it.  Then he can make his way forward in the pathless forest.

Nature Become Conscious

The ecology symbol ultimately derives, perhaps, from the ancient astronomical sign for the Earth.  It is also the most basic dyadic mandala, a symbol of both opposition and union.  As the ecology symbol it connotes Nature/the Unconscious/God, and Man, once sundered, now remade in mystical union, a powerful living symbol of "Nature Become Conscious"-- the Ecological Self, conscious in Feorgen and Drygand and in those humans in which synthesis has occurred.

Immanence

Ordinary transcendent gods don't understand what it is to live in a matrix of feeding, breeding, fighting to survive, in a world of mud and blood, fear and fierceness.  But the Drygand does, as did the Alwight, his former form.  And this is because they came of the feministic Wolken, one with the lives of organisms-- immanent, not transcendent.  We don't have to transcend our biological nature to reach God, to touch the Numinous 'One'.  The Numinous imbues biological existence, all of it.  We just must get beyond the merely human ecology to embrace all of Life-- that is our way to reach beyond the human, to find the one true God, the biospheric Numinosum, and to dwell in it--  as it. That is his purpose, our destiny.

note: The Wolken became Feorgen when the Alwight became Drygand, which happened when the ecological Lodestone, gestated in the Wolken, was conferred on the Drygand by the human Twayne: Bilwit and Wildiar.  This is the foundational myth of the Shaggy Mythos.

Ecological Man

Ecological Man is characterized by Self-conscious psyche: the ego is integrated with the individual's Self and through this with the transhuman ecological Self.  Personal and biospheric good order is provided through Self-regulated feedback adjustment for flexible stability.

This is the ideal toward which we should aim.

Self-- by this I mean the Jungian Self and the Naessian ecological Self as a continuum.

Drygand, Come!

The Drygand comes to us in a form idiosyncratic to us, according to our own Self-synthesis of internal elements and external influences, rather than as a collective representation-- unless he has need to manifest collectively, in greater matters.

So he is then our personal dryg (Indryg), our Agathos Daimon, our inspired power.  His power corresponds to the extent of the integration of our psyche, and so if we seek his help, working toward integration of psyche, and of psyche with Nature, is like a call to him:  Come, Drygand!  And even better when one has acted on the results of this inner work, making it real.

Meaning

A hero commits an act of myth within himself, when overload becomes overdrive, commits culture within himself for emergency adaptation, to adapt or die, now or never, evolves further, shifts the fate of the World, once and for all time: Make the Menning, the Meaning of Man.