The ancient Romans were given to wearing a phallic amulet to protect them from the 'evil eye', a look of baleful effect if it caught one's eye. To their mind, the phallus preempted this malevolent glare, as it had the power to compel attention, thus depotentiating it before it could do harm.
In like wise, the Drygand, the chthonic phallic serpent, neutralizes the pitiless beam of the Searuvel, the evil machine, whose great artificial cyclops-eye hypnotizes with the fatal fascination of technological power. For even a work of artifice cannot resist the Drygand's rapt snake-stare, the erotic undulations of his lower snake-half, and the shocking counter-rational apparition of this were-snake chimaera.
The wild and fearsome Drygand is our one sure defense against the enslaving allure of ever more advanced and powerful technological simulacra for what is natural, animal, and human in our dear Biosphere-sanctuary. For once we have been imprinted with the awe-ful sight of this monstrous creature, we are forever immune to the chill glare of the Searuvel.
apotropaic= intended to ward off evil, as with an amulet.
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