Author of Water Beings, Veronica Strang, celebrates the appearance of Sasha Constable’s Otter Dragon at the Dorset May Day festival.

Sculpture by Sasha Constable working with the Cerne Community, in Partnership with The Dorset Museum as part of the Dorchester Science Festival.

In the early history of humankind, when all societies worshipped nature, they expressed their relationship with water via beliefs in serpentine water beings. Snake-like dragons and similarly ophidian creatures occupied leading roles in their pantheons of deities. Serpent gods rose up out of primal seas to create worlds. They appeared wherever water flowed, sparkling in the celestial river we now call the Milky Way, emerging out of the clouds, arching over the Earth in rainbows and meandering across the land in shining streams. Spiralling in hydro-theological cycles between Earth and sky, they were the bringers of water and life.

Read Sasha and Veronica’s fantastic article in Garland Magazine below: