Therogon

Oct 15, 2004 18:59

In case anybody was wondering...
Therogon is a word derived from the Greek prefixes Therios and Gonos meaning, respectively, animal and seed (or genesis).
The greek suffix for seed is Spermos, or in cellular biology -gon is used reversely as a suffix in the words schizogony and merogony, which are essentially the same thing, describing the process by which asexually reproducing sporozoans divide by multiple-asexual-fission. A Merogon, possibly the closest word in the english language to Therogon, is an incompletely developed ovum, or a product of merogony. Multiple fission is when a cell duplicates its nucleus and then the cell divides itself into smaller parts. Its different from binary fission in that the nucleus does not cleave (as it also does in the last stage of mitosis, though mitosis differs from fission in that it occurs in sexually reproducing organisms where complete replication and division of cells is desirable to maintain equivalence in genetic structure, and no such process is necessary in single-cell organisms which lack complicated genetic patterns) prior to fission but instead forms a sort of blastula of smaller daughter cells on its exterior which are ejected in the final stage of fission by the mother cell.
Also, -gon is primarily used as a suffix to mean 'angle' as in the Greek word gonus or gonia, 'angled'.
One could say that the literal form of Therogon is 'animal seed' or 'animal angle', but the nature of the word is derived from its natures. Synonomous with animal is the word 'beast', which connotates a certain behaviour, as when we apply that behaviour to humans to denote that they are acting especially wild or animal-like. An angle is formed from the joining of line segments, and as such represents in a small way the relationship of Therogon to Dragon; but in its intended literal translation "beast scion", we use the suffixal form of Gonos to create the understanding of the real relationship between the Dragon and Therogon. Therogon is a "daughter cell", a division, let's say, of a greater nucleus that is seeded and becomes its own.
By nature, Therogon is all of the Darkness of the Dragon, a twin - but incomplete - of the most characteristic natures of the Dragon, malformed by a lack of fundamental virtuousness, and strengthened by its singularity in purpose. As a child, Therogon is a rebel, wishing to replace the father Dragon and rape and murder the mother Nature; to defy existence; to recreate a world of Darkness.
Through Darkness we know what we are.
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