¶ Naga (3)
Index Entry
Naga:
"their possibly millions-of-years-ago forbears.
“When the god of the sea, Naga, tidally enters the river mouths of the land, as seen from the high mountain, his snake shape is clearly revealed by the river’s shape. The Japanese word for river, ‘Nagala,’ indicates that the ancient water people looked upon the river’s banks and bed as constituting the female organ of the land being sexually intruded by Naga, the god of the sea, as the oceanic tides pulsed inwardly and outwardly for great distances at the lower extremities of the rivers. The early humans sensed and revered the greater pattern events of Universe as manifesting an ever and everywhere presence of a knowing, life-giving, supporting and terminating competence vastly greater than that of humans. They saw themselves and all that they could see, including the Sun, Moon, and stars, as having only minuscule local parts in an organic whole whose shape and size transcended both the ranges of their vision and the scope of their imagining.”
