The Mythic Snake

The mythic Snake represents the deep, chthonic Mind-- that of Man and that of Nature.  His form evolved from that of the actual reptile to one more chimaeric, and so, numinous, otherworldly, such as the Dragon in all his forms, or as a winged were-wyrm such as is seen in the Hindu Naga, the Greek Agathos Daimon (good genius), and the Aztec Quetzalcoatl.  These winged man-snakes are symbolic of the Self, the integrated Psyche, being both of the earth and of the sky, of Nature and of Man, animal and human, primordial and modern, the unconscious and the conscious minds.  And in the Drygand, the mythic Snake has become the archetype of the Ecological Psyche in our Age of Ecology.

The Hornbora

The Hornbora bears the ever-welling Fullhorn, and tips from it the Samen-mead, the Life-flowod of the deep nennings.  He is the Ful-filler to all who may drink deep.

Hornbora(OEng)= horn-bearer.
Fullehorn(Ger)= horn of plenty.  Ful(OEng)= cup.
Samen= the Life-germ, elixir of life.
Nenning(ONor)= energy.

The Bind-ring of Twaynes

The Wykumbol-- the ecology symbol or ecologo-- is a wide oval whose ends are joined by a horizontal line.  The line divides the oval into identical halves suggesting higher and lower parts of a whole.  Among the pairs (twains) suggested by this are:

the Sky(-dragon) and the Earth(-dragon).
the Spirit and the Soul.
the conscious Ego-mind and the Unconscious mind.
the Civilized and the Primitive.
the Will and the Instincts.

The Wykumbol can be considered as a bind-ring that forms a whole of these opposites, as well as an interrelated whole of all the pairs of opposites.  The Wykumbol also symbolizes the Drygand's Lode-Stone and of course the Wyke (Biosphere) itself, and the Wyke-sake (Ecology movement).

Wykumbol= Wyke(dwelling> Biosphere) +Kumbol (sign, symbol, banner).
Sake= a cause, movement.

Dragon-Meld

The Winged Dragon flies to the Heights, and the Chthonic Dragon burrows to the Depths.  If they meld into one, you have a shamanic traveller over the gamut of the tiered Cosmos of the Psyche: the Drygand.  At the height of the Psyche is the most modern mode of ego-consciousness: the ecological.  In the depth you have the primordial Unconscious, the preserve of the survival instincts, which express consciously as evolved archetypal forms.  In Jungian psychology, the crisis of modern man derives from the dualist divorce of our 'civilized' ego-consciousness and the archaic Unconscious.  'Ecology', as a revival of monist synthesis and unity in cultural compensation for dualist analysis and differentiation, has provided us with a way to extract ourselves from the modern dilemma.  By 'Ecology', I mean a broad definition that includes the rational analytic science of ecology, as well as the monist synthetic cultural and Nature-preservationist movement of Deep Ecology.  And the means to apply the natural laws of Ecology so as to reunite the ego and Unconscious, and Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in harmony is through a kind of open shamanic experiencing of the tiers of the psychic cosmos as an integral self-regulating system which establishes an equilibrium-seeking free flux of all elements in the psyche-engaged-with-the-real-world.  And this is one aspect of what the archetypal Drygand represents, as a guiding model for Mennings, a sort of shamanic Ally to aid ego and Unconscious, Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in melding into a self-regulating system that can be characterized as ecological and that acts ecologically.

chthonic= subterranean, underworldly. pronounced 'kthonic'.
Mennings= people of the Menning, the ecological culture-civilization.

The Wyrd We Make

The implacable fact of human-made planetary ecocide necessitates a new transhuman ecological imperative, moral and spiritual, which takes precedence over culture-specific mores.  This is our Wyrd.  This is the Wyrd we must make.  For Life on Earth to go on, we must make it so, in our psyches and in the real world.  We must act for all Life, for its fate is our own.  If we do not do this, it will not happen.  We must evolve, and quickly, or die.  We must summon our deepest resources, the powerful archetypes of survival deep in our brain-minds, to help us work these changes, to create a transhuman ecological Self and an ecologically-manifesting culture-civilization, as the necessary means to saving Life on Earth.  We must make this Wyrd so.

NearSun Day

On NearSun Day, GreneSun wanders oer the lands and waters, and a fore-sight of Neorxnalder yet to come glows green and warm through the frosted waste of Winter-tide, bearing Drygand tofore.

Drygand sheds his blaze of grene-fyre light abroad, rousing the Drygs of the lands and waters to shed each their Sidden nearabout, to all the wyrts and wights that rest in winter sleep, a pledge of green times coming.

And the Drylar who from time unknown range the scapes to ward the wilds, they stand and hail the thrymm and thryth of Feorgen thus shown in the light of GreneSun and the might of Drygand on this NearSun Day, when the Sun comes close.

NearSun Day= Perihelion, when the Earth in its orbit is closest to the Sun. January 4th this year.
GreneSun= the sun of the Otherworld.
Neorxnalder= Neorxna-Alder: the 'Ever-green Age' of Edhlifrith ('Nature-peace').
Drygand= the ecological shaman-warrior god, son of Feorgen(Nature-mind).
Drygs= guardian-spirits who dwell-in-place in the lands and waters.
Sidden= magical influence.
Wyrts and Wights= flora and fauna.
Drylar= trollish ranger-wardens of the Wilderness.
Thrymm and Thryth(OEng.)= majesty, glory, splendor.

"Summer-in-Winter"

The upwending of the Sun with the start of Yule marks a new turning of the Sun-wheel as the new year is born, for Yule Day is New Year's Day.

And the tide from the Yule-turning unto NearSun Day (Perihelion: Jan 4, 2014; 6:59 AM EST) is called Summer-in-Winter, for the Sun ever-rising in the sky pulls GreneSun up from its winter-home in the evergreen Otherworld and it blazes as "Light-at-Night, when the Otherworld of the Deep and This-world meld; and for this while, the Menning shines forth within everything like a lovely many-hued Seeing, like a sky-broad Cloud-land lit from within, borne on a luft of glad rynisch music.  And this is what makes the Yule-tide such a gladsome time of Hope for the Tocume.

wend= to turn.
Tide= a space of time.
Perihelion= when the Earth is closest to the Sun.
rynisch= mystical, ineffable.
Tocume= the future, the 'time to come'. Ger. Zukunft.