The Raptors of Jurassic Park---what awesome predators!  Very scary...

Today's reptiles are not quite as fearsome as the Raptors, but still can be awesomely powerful and single-minded.  Witness the huge alligator taking its prey down into the depths of the river; the mighty Komodo Dragons, a twenty foot-long Anaconda!  They still have that Dinosaur mystic!

Why are reptiles so fascinating?  Even people who fear them still acknowledge their beauty, their power, their seeming intelligence.  (Although, as animals go, reptiles are fairly stupid. )

We can learn a lot from reptiles, especially if they are our friends.  Consider their ADMIRABLE SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS.  A good example is snakes.

Snakes are not the savage attackers that many humans deem them to be.  Indeed, a snake will rarely attack or strike unless it feels it's being attacked and is in imminent danger of being killed!  It's only defending itself!  Often I've gently picked up a wild, nonpoisonous snake (rescuing it most likely from being run-over at the side of a road), and taken it home---and it was as tame and nice from the first day out of the wild as it is years later.  "If you be nice to him, he'll be nice to you!"

Snakes don't play with their food.  They kill it within seconds either from massive poison or from stopping the prey's breathing.  Then, instead of tearing the dead animal into bloody pieces, the snake neatly swallows the entire thing---wasting nothing!  Snakes have no ears, no arms, no legs, and limited vision.  How well could you do under those circumstances?  Yet the ultimate handicapped animal, the snake, does extremely well.

And the colors, patterns, textures are just incredibly beautiful.  Snakes are the ultimate expression of art---fluid motion, which can flow in all directions at the same time!  Amazing.  

Learn to UNDERSTAND AND BE FRIENDS with a snake, and you can be friends with any human!   Of course, I'm not talking about poisonous snakes, which only professional experts should get near, try to handle, or keep in captivity.  But there are many nonpoisonous snakes which will not try to bite, in fact will be very friendly---if you are friendly to them!

Note that you can not be gentle and nice to a snake one day, then rough the next.  Snakes don't understand "rough."  They are not a cat or dog, who you can tease or "play" with.  If you are rough to a snake, they only know that something bad is happening and they should try to defend themselves!  To keep the confidence of a snake, you have to be nice and gentle to them every second, all the time!  It only takes one minute of being stupid, of not thinking of the snake's good, of the snake's needs---to lose its confidence!

Handle your pet snake gently, support him, be nice to him, provide him with food/shelter/warmth, and he will respond in kind.  Sure, there are some grouchy snakes you have to be careful around, but most will get very tame quite rapidly.

Reptiles have three main concerns:  to be warm, to be well-fed, and to feel safe.  Sound familiar?  Do we have similar basic concerns, which if violated make us very tense and fearful?

We can learn a lot from reptiles---about ourselves; and about how best to deal with other people!

Reptilian Holiday Greetings   $39.95

(click title to go to full description, visuals, titles, and samples)

This 313-page book contains fifteen strange, bizarre, science-fiction short stories, each illustrated by a Christmas Holiday-oriented, provocative animal cartoon.   Each story deals with an underlying theme from its cartoon, as to the nature and significance of our holiday gatherings, when humanity tends to exhibit both its best and worst characteristics.  Talking rodents and snakes, time/mind-traveling teenage zombies, rich kids at Christmas that don't do as well as mice, and the real reasons why we all love Santa.    Half of the book deals with the holiday-related adventures of the "Hyperspace Trader Space Kids," a young boy and girl who two thousand years in the future accompany and help their parents as they all travel on their starship in hyperspace throughout the Galaxy, hauling cargo from planet to planet, and trading with many strange life-forms.  In this book, the space kids encounter and struggle with space pirates, giant intelligent snakes, the mysterious Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way, and Humanity's Greatest Treasure locked in a Pyramid in a deserted Washington D.C. mall on mythical Old Earth.  [rating: "G," appropriate for people of all ages.]

Introduction       Sample       Place in Shopping Cart    Check Out

"Clang" (GREEN ANACONDA's debut Music CD)   $19.95

(click title to go to full description, visuals, titles, and samples)

This hour-long, music CD, performed by Green Anaconda, contains potent compositions which go beyond "rock and roll" to a new form of music: "Clang."  The songs are based on chapters and themes from the science-fiction/horror novel "Real Dracula."  It is an ugly, grating, savage noise---but at the same time, strangely beautiful.  In many ways it is like a snake---like a green anaconda!  Anacondas are very large, powerful, water snakes.  You might think they are ugly.  But their pattern of deep green/black-spots/yellow-tummy is a beautiful match to their environment, protecting them.  Also, they are clumsy and slow on land, but move with fluid grace in the water.  So also is this music by GREEN ANACONDA---discordant and rough, but with a powerful momentum and deep meaning.  [suggested listening restriction: "PG13," young people under 13 requiring parental approval to hear this CD.]

Introduction       Clang Songs       Place in Shopping Cart    Check Out

REPTILE Art Posters                $19.95 each

(click title to go to full descriptions and visuals)

Twenty-one (13 x 19") Art Posters, beautifully arranged and presented as small and full-screen Thumbnails, in the area of:  REPTILE GALLERY.  All posters tie-into and graphically illustrate key information/concepts from LylePublishing books, CDs, and other products.   Powerful, beautiful, exotic reptiles are used to illustrate critical, encapsulated Quality and Significance ideas/emotions: presented in large size, vivid color schemes, with powerful pictures---ready to frame and hang on one's wall as a constant reminder of the struggle/difficulty in recognizing and exalting true Beauty in our day-to-day life.  [Note that the actual, printed 13 x 19" posters are significantly more colorful, detailed, and sharper than the small and large thumbnails presented on the website.]

Online Ordering Page (all posters listed) [Your secure credit card payment will be processed by 2CheckOut]

      Top of Page    Send Mail             Art Posters