LIVE/EVIL

The Drygand is Animan: half Animal/half Man, a projection of Biospheric Mind into Man. He is the Live God (biological), drawing humans toward Nature-order and wholeness of Self.

The Searuvel is Android: half Man/half  Machine, a projection of human mind into impersonal technology.  It is the Evil Machine, man-made, but ever-escaping from sane control, drawing humans into a disjunct artifice of Shadow.

The Good God

"Humans are evil by nature and require an Other-power to keep them on track."  Terrible but nonetheless true.

Drygand, defender of Wyke and Feorgen, of Good greater than good-and-evil; he is the Genius of Good-- the Agathos Daimon.  By his sidden and his wiles he seeks ever to beguile those who persist in wrongness, and turn them to Right Good.  And there are those true to him who seek to help him in his work and are helped in turn.

Drygand, being God Within and Without, is thus inescapable-- we are all caught between, as he has us on both sides.  Therefore, the Caduceus, the twice-entwined snake-staff, symbolizes his power over us, the poor stick in the middle.  The 'outer' snake is the Nagaraja, guardian of Sacred Nature (Wyke), and the 'inner' is the Kundalini, who rises from the Deep-within.  Together, they make the Agathos Daimon which is Drygand, who turns the wicked, wayward human in its coils toward Good, from stick to staff.

Wyke= the dwelling of Life: the Biosphere.
Feorgen= biospheric Mind: Father Earth.
Agathos Daimon(Gk)= guardian spirit and helper.
Sidden(OEng siden)= magical influence.

Feorgen and Drygand

Feorgen is God of All Life, World Soul, Father Earth, Eormengand the World-girdling Serpent.

And Drygand is his offshoot, his agency, the face and force he turns toward Man.

Feorh(OEng, also 'feorg')= life. Fjarg(ONor)= heathen god. Fjarghus= temple. Fairhus(Goth)= world. Firgen(OEng)= mountain. Fjorgyn(ONor)= Mother Earth. Fjorgynn= an epithet used of Odinn.

Eormen-(OEng, ~ONor Jormun-)= great, vast. Gand(ONor)= something magical; i.e. serpent, staff, wizard/witch. Jormungand(ONor)=the Midgard(Earth) Serpent.

Dry(OEng~Kelt. drui, as in 'druid')= magician, magic. Any etymological resemblance of 'Drygand' to 'dragon' is entirely fortuitous.

Dare the Drygand

Drygand looms from the dark of the Deep and hoves there where the known becomes the unknown, the light of knowledge becomes the dark of wisdom, man becomes animal.  There he presides, the dark Nature-god of dark power.  He embodies the survival drive of the Life-tribe, the terrible purpose.  He is trickster and culture-hero, helper and guide of his people.  He is Good beyond good, he fights Evil beyond evil, but cannot do it alone-- he needs our loyalty and service, to save Life-on-Earth, to cast down the Searuvel.

Drygand is Haelend, the hope sent to us.  Meet him half-way, at the center, at the axis of turning, the fulcrum of shifting.  He is God within, God without, and we can be at the in-between, where he dwells in us.  We cannot do it alone, we must dare the Drygand.

Searuvel (Eor)= the Evil Machine.
Haelend (OEng)= savior.

In the Grip

The Drygand, dark Nature God, is trying to manifest in Man.  A trickster god with all means at his disposal, insidious beguiler, hidden insinuator, slippery-fluctuous fellow, trying to become Man, trying to wake us up, by means fair and foul-- he's scary.

But Man resists awakening; he's afraid, of the influx of knowledge, and the incessant demands of the bettering Self, and the transfiguration to a greater moral girth, and Consciousness!

 But like with a python, the more Man resists, the tighter the grip.  Or he can accept the inevitable.

The Transformation of the Mythic Primordial World-Serpent

The mythic primordial World-Serpent, the defender of the Tree of Life, culture-hero, civilizer of the human species, presided over a Golden Age of  stability and good order.  He tamed the wild biologic drives through his cunning and wisdom, his fertile creativity, his magic power, and harnessed them toward good order.  He was a guide and wisdom-teacher to the worthy.

The basis for religion is the rite of offering of oneself to the god, founded on the survival-logic of reciprocity: you give so that you may get-- ultimately, the good order of balance and harmony of Man and Nature that one finds in pagan monist-pluralist religion: Nature is good to us if we are good to It.

But now there is no such religion, no such rite.  We have a world culture of childish stupidity and irresponsibility, with consequent catastrophe for Man and Nature growing inexorably closer.

The Drygand is the mythic primordial World-Serpent reworked by the Wolken in response to the crisis, the vitalist biologic God of Good order.  He now is Haelend-- savior-- and Eormen-Teev-- Supreme God.  The survival-logic of the rite of reciprocity is now given force under a moral mandate of dualist-monotheist religion:"Save the Earth!"  This is the higher purpose given to man, to bring him from his witless childhood into responsible maturity.  The Drygand, as culture-hero and civilizer of modern Man, as wisdom-teacher and guide, by helping us both to take a giant step back, into primal archaic mind, thus reclaiming the long-buried powers of Nature-mind, and using these to drive us to take one giant step forward, into scientific, activist, and religious Ecological Mind, we evolve the Menning, the ecological civilization founded on the survival-logic of the rite of offering, that we might yet preserve both Man and Nature, and achieve a Grenegold Age of stability and good order.

Perform the rite of offering with your life and show your worth.

Assertion

The simple moral assertion that the Biosphere is primary, the Cosmic God, seems to be the essential, nonreducable basis for 'Good Order' in the human realm, without which we continue our compulsive spasm toward universal destruction.  This entity is the Ecological Self, the intelligent power for good order permeating all of Life.  And we are meant to participate in its manifestation.