Andsacas

Saca(OEng)= opponent, foe. Andsaca= adversary. and- (OEng/ONor)= opposite, against (~anti-). Andskoti(ONor)= adversary, devil, Satan. ~OEng Sceadha= injurious person, antagonist, devil. ~Eng Scathe. thus: Andscathe(Eormanz).
Haelend(OEng)= savior.

The Drygand and the Searuvel are andsacas.  Both are extrahuman powers, similar in some ways, as they must be, for the Drygand to be able to replace the Searuvel, but fundamentally they are different: opposites, adversaries.  The following pairs of opposites show the oppositeness of their natures.

Drygand-- Searuvel.
transhuman Agathodaimon (good, Haelend)-- dehuman Kakodaimon (bad, evil, Andscathe).
organic manimal-- bionic android.
Jungian ecologism-- Nietzschean humanism.
earth-- outer space.
integrated biospheric Self (Psyche/Biosphere)-- unmoored ego (often possessed).
modest Mensch-- overweening Ubermensch.

Wyrm History

Wolcen(OEng)= cloud, sky; ball, lump. Wolken(Ger)= cloud.
Wyrm(OEng)= worm, snake, reptile, dragon. Urwyrm= the primordial wyrm.
Samen(Ger)= seed, sperm.

The Urwyrm meanders throughout the warm earthen seed-bed of the Wolken, the biospheric mind inhabiting its biotic dream.  This hermaphroditic worm luxuriates in this fertile matrix rich in its castings, feeds on the Wolken's samen, the vital fluid, and the warmth of gestation incubates the consumed samen in the worm's fore-end into a mazeway-pattern of condensed life-knowledge, becoming its brain-mind.

In time, the Wolken is more like a misty cloud in which the samen further condenses in the wyrm's brain like mist does into hailstone, and so the Lodestone forms.  The Urwyrm now is more like an aerial serpent weaving in and out of this vast cloud, crackling with lightning-flashes.

In time further, when the Lode is fully forged, it falls to earth, to the center of all things, where it waits and calls to the Twayne-- Bilwit and Wildiar.  And thus begins the foundational myth of the Mythos, in which the seed-crystal of the Urwyrm melds with the brain-mind of the Alwight, and the Drygand is born.

Note: In the world of the deep mind, things can mysteriously transmute and form odd conjunctions, as they do in dreams, and so do they here, but not nonsensically-- it all means something important. It's evocative, suggestive, vague, intuitive, rather than sharp, clear, and rational.

'Our' Monster

It might be wise to 'civilize' the instinctual shadow-monsters of the Deep Mind in anticipation of a looming survival threat else they erupt in raw form and overthrow the fragile, civilized ego-mind, make them instead controlled forces for adaptation to crisis, rather than have them agents of chaos-- panic, psychic immobilization, paranoia and atrocities, grasping at the nearest means offering salvation, or worse.  Cultures do this archetype shaping in anticipation of possible emergency, seeking to tame the raw archaic instinctual response, making it 'our' monster.

However, there is a possibility that an adapted monster will revert to type, just as a dragon-slaying Hero-archetype figure often becomes the next dragon-monster-- though the dragon-energies were originally assimilated and used for good, they turn bad.  A possible way to maintain the line between good and bad is through the influence of an even more powerful archetype-- the Uber-Self, or God, or whatever you want to call it.  But even that can turn bad, as we know, so nothing is foolproof.

Jung came to the conclusion that unleashing the instinctual powers on a mass level in order to drive necessary adaptation was too dangerous-- only an elite of highly-trained persons could perhaps engage and handle them wisely.  Maybe so.  Maybe a class of something like Jungian druids, acting as an evaluating, guiding, even steering, institution might come to be seen as necessary to keep civilization from going wrong, though my skeptical modern mind finds this unlikely to come about, and in a form that worked.  But if the threat to survival is unmistakeable, one must try to invoke 'our' monsters, I suppose, rather than to continue to do nothing.  Dragons, anyone?

Mythimage

The Wolken-- primeval Nature-mind-- is rendered as a six-color rainbow-cloud all rounded and humpy like a cumulus cloud.  All about its wide-ovate form, Nessie-like arcs break the surface-- this is the Urwyrm, the primeval Serpent which snakes all through the cloudy mass, conducting Samen-flowod throughout, connecting every part of the Wolken.  Over the humpy surface flashes appear in different colors.  And an inner glow can be discerned-- this is from the gestating Lodestone, the jade pearl of ecological wisdom, forming gradually from samen depositing in intricate intelligent patterns, that lies at the heart of the foundational myth of the Shaggy Mythos.

Wolke(Ger)/Wolcen(OEng)= cloud.
Samen(Ger)= seed, sperm. the vital fluid.

The Evil Machine

The Searuvel, the Evil Machine, was meant to vanquish the Adversarial Dragon.  Heroic humanist Man dicovered, invented, science and technology.  The Searuvel was to be 'our dragon', a magic servitor conjured from the forces of wild Nature to meet our needs and desires.  "How clever of us!  What an ornament to human pride!  We really are as gods: with a wish and a will we can do anything.  Eventually we will make of this world a garden city where life is very pleasant, we are saved from hard labor and afflictions inherent in bodily existence, and marvelous noble entertainments will make existence a blessing."  But everything has two faces, and what was so self-evidently Good became evil.  Our magic servitor has addicted and enslaved us.  The machines we cannot do without, necessary to life, now outnumber, outweigh us.  They are the Power now.  We cannot help but model ourselves on them, but we realize we can never be as capable-- they are godlike, they are the master race.  The entire planet is a Machine Regime.  They have colonized the world-- Man and Nature-- working in the open, with our full support!  We invented our supplanters out of our own vaunting brilliance, but now we scurry and sweat, to give this machine greater reach and puissance, giving the best in us to magnify this terrible Techno-dragon.  And what do we get as payment?  A diminishing of our substance.  We are addicted, weakened, made stupid, blind, abased, degraded.  We have become wretched slaves who were once proud masters.  When we discovered what we had engineered with full overweening confidence, we lost the drive and the will and magnificent arrogance.  And now we are trapped in the moils of 'our dragon', and like all conquerors, it accepts no limits to its magnification, and will destroy both us and itself, as well as Nature-- the Uroboros that created us is displaced, used up, annihilated. 

Is there nothing we can do against this evil machine, this Searuvel, to stop it before it destroys the Earth?  Well, if we could all just 'come to' from the spell of delusion that has possessed us, it would be a start.

The Searuvel is vulnerable, though; it has a fatal weakness-- it is a dead thing.  Not a living, organic, biotic system.  It is not self-generating, self-sustaining.  It requires ever increasing infusions of human energy, libido, soul.  Like a world-vampire, it must suck the life out of the living.  But if humanity ever came out of its stupor, we would stop feeding the Techno-dragon, for this undead Thing must grow or disintegrate-- stop the influx of life-force and it quickly shows its brittleness-- it crumbles, melts.  The dilemma, though, is that without the Searuvel to support us, we, too, would die, civilization would collapse, a frenzied self-annihilation would overtake desperate humanity.  Our minds cannot go there, we cannot consider this option.  But wait-- there is a chance, if, recognizing the real situation, we make a plan-- not to kill the Dragon, but to collectively withdraw our psychic involvement in it, to assimilate its functions and powers into an analog developed to serve Life-- all life, not just Lord Man the mighty conqueror and ruler of All.  If we made this our great, last ditch Project, Life might have a chance.  But we'll never know until we really try, invest all we've got into this enterprise.  And it starts with a person making a decision.

What Can One Do?

What can a person do to experience this transformation himself?

Withdraw your psychic investment in the Searuvel.  Who needs this crap culture? crap video, crap music, crap writing-- it's nowhere, it's selective, false, and bad for you, full of the shallow, mindless, wrongheaded values and mores of mass culture.  Who can fall for this dreck, anyway? presumably only the chronically innocent.  Do you want to be the best droid you can be, or would you rather be a mensch?  Cut the incessant meaningless chatter and herd-cohesing, withdraw from the flash-bang techno-pyrotechnics, fill your field instead with Nature, deep ecological culture, and your own homegrown reality.  Become like the Transcendentalists-- self/Self-reliant.  Use your ego-will to best purpose-- make your own culture, starting with your dreams and reveries, your imagination-- turn your spotlight on that, find the Self in that-- "Seek your own Self with diligence!"  Think and seek for yourself as best you can, follow your own light, accept no substitutes!  Seek the guidance that may not appear to be guidance, of the Lode, Indryg, Drygand, Feorgen-- or whatever represents Ecological Self to you.  And make Menning, for all Life forever! 

The Third Stage: the Ecological Naga

The Snake Cycle reaches closure, let us say, with the third stage, of the Ecological Naga.  The Naga, being half man and half snake, is a symbol of the synergism of ego-mind and Unconscious under the Self, the central coordinating archetype of the human psyche.  The two previous stages, of the undifferentiated, monist Uroboros and of the split, dualist Dragon, are both assimilated into the transcendent synthesis that is the Naga.  The importance of the Naga-stage is in the channeling of the great psychic power of the primordial survival drive of the Unconscious to conform to the guidance of ecological wisdom by the Self in the transformation of the human psyche and the development of ecological culture-civilization.  Such mental/cultural restructuring has occurred in the past in the sort of shamanic transformation which produces a prophet in a time of cultural extremis, such as described by Anthony F. C. Wallace, in which the mind spontaneously reorganizes itself in accordance with core values promising of survival of the people, essentially rapid-scanning its contents in deep trance and resynthesizing the old culture-model into a powerful, simple, comprehensible new one, providing then the best answer to the crisis of breakdown.  With the ascendance of the Ecological Self, such rapid evolution, of the Menning, can be expected to occur in many minds, achieving various levels of realization, creating a population of powerfully charismatic, wise individuals whose very presence can inspire others to undergo some degree of transformation themselves.

This, then, is the great hope: that the primordial Serpent Power will be engaged by the Ecological Self to thrust up to remake mankind for the survival of all Life on Earth.  And already there are individuals who have undergone this Change. The question remains: what can a person do to experience this transformation himself.