RT @nick_routledge: @DalrympleWill A Gandharan analog and one of the more popular, trans-historical, trans-cultural prototypes in our midst, he ultimately represents a natural aspect of being with life where the worldly and spiritual, 'earthly and celestial', mix and match. Life as fundamentally co-evolutionary.
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In the sculpture, a human being slays a dragon (as in the allegory of St. George and the Dragon). But here, the dragon—representing nuclear war—lies amidst pieces of actual SS-20 and Pershing II intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which were destroyed under the INF treaty.
@EsmeLKPartridge Transcending and including cultures, religions and *realms*, no less. Indeed, perhaps his revelatory significance as a fundamentally reconciliatory, planetary archetype has never been more clear-cut?
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Copy of tweet: Nick_routledge Nick_routledge and end/ A contemporary Sufi voice notes Khezr/St. George "might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of modern militant eco-enviromentalism." This trans-cultural, universalist prototype of prophetic earthworker, enfleshes a co-evolutionary helix as the Heaven of Earth. 3:15 PM · Nov 23, 2020