Die Eischalen-Strukturen der Reptilien als ein Bild tierischer Konstitution

Die Eischalen-Strukturen der Reptilien als ein Bild tierischer Konstitution

ROSELIES GEHLIG
Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus 2003, 2003, P.122-206 | DOI: 10.18756/jfg.2003.122
Zoology | Language: German | €6
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Abstract:

The egg shell structures of reptiles as a picture of the animal's constitution

The articles on bird egg shells in the Tycho de Brahe yearbooks 1996 and 1997 are here supplemented with an article on reptile eggs which also reviews the situation with the birds.

The poikilothermic reptiles mostly bury their predominantly colour less eggs in the ground without incubating the eggs thcmselves. During incubation the eggs increase in weight. This shows the relation of the reptiles to the Earth, to coldness, darkness and weight. During Earth evolution ahrimanic beings belonging to the higher hierarchies connected with these qualities. On the one hand they consolidate living beings to the extent necessary for living on the Earth but on the other hand they want them to reach maturity too soon, to over-individualise them and increase their life span. Evolutionally‚ for the animals this means an anticipation of characteristics of higher animal groups/classes (e. g. bird-like appendices on some ribs of the tuatara, Spbenodonpunctatus; highly developed care for nests and young in the case of crocodiles; a internal voice in the case of gcckos; ovovivipary in the case of snakes and some lizards).

The classifying criteria for the egg shell structures do not seem to be the evolutionary stages of the reptiles but rather their threefoldness (digestively dominated turtles; rhythmiéally dominated crocodiles; tuatara, varans and geekos and nerve-sensc dominated snakes). This correlates with a more or less»head-like«or»limb-like«ossification of the different reptile bodies: land turtles maximally represent over the whole body the»formative characteristics of the head«, with its mostly ossified skull bones, by enelosing the thorax and abdomen within a fully ossified carapace. Snake-like lizards (scincidae, lacertidae) and snakes represent the»formative characteristics of the limbs«. The snakes also have reduced ossification of the skull and show joint-like flexibility of skull boncs.

In eontrast to the reptiles, the warm-blooded birds thcmselves incubate their clutches of eggs which are mostly laid above-ground and are often beautifully pigmented. During incubation, bird eggs loose weight. During evolution of the earth luciferic beings, also belonging to the higher hierarchies, connected with the qualities of lightness, air, light, colour and warmth. On the one hand, these beings prevent too strong or premature ossification in animals and man, keep open the connection to the spiritual world and inspire creativity and art in man whilst on the other hand they tend to keep all living beings on earth in a state of childhood, preventing individualisation and shortening life spam. Evolutionally, for the animals this means a retention of characteristics of lower animal groups/classes (e. g. reptile-like characteristics such as scales covering the legs of gallinaceous birds, egg burying in the megapode birds, limb relics in boas and pythons).

The eggs of different rcptilcs can be distinguished especially by their shell structures:»Ahriman models! «In contrast‚ the eggs of different birds can be distinguished especially by their pigmentation:»Lucifer paints!«Compared with rcptiles, birds on the whole manifest an additional formative characteristic of the head namely the soul which is expressed in their high body temperature, singin'g, plumage colour and egg pigmentation. The formative characteristic of the head as a general developmental principle for the whole body is reduced in birds to the appendices on the ribs, contributing to reinforcernent of the bird's thorax.

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