Dragon Lines
The old straight tracks and telluric currents named for the serpent — the energy-circulation of the living land.
British folk tradition named the old straight tracks and telluric currents "dragon lines" — the serpent as the energy-circulation of the living land. The image has cousins across the world: Chinese feng shui's dragon veins (*lóng mài*) carry the qi of the mountains; Aboriginal songlines follow the Rainbow Serpent's path; the Andean ceques radiate serpentine from Cuzco. The land has a spine, and along it the serpent runs.
The SGE Reading
Essence stage as *infrastructure*: the sacred is not on top of the landscape, it is the landscape's circulatory system.
Canon Resonance
The map beneath every path in the saga — the reason a pilgrimage is never only symbolic.
A Micro-Practice
Walk a route you know well. Somewhere on it, stop for thirty seconds and try to feel — without deciding whether it is true — that a line runs through this exact place. Move on with that possibility.
Sources & Respect
Alfred Watkins, *The Old Straight Track* (1925); Chinese: *Zangshu*, attrib. Guo Pu.