Dragons: Mystical Creatures or Reality?
Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2005
by lorien1973
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"Here be dragons", dragons are not mystical creatures after all, there is substantial evidence that they existed in the distance past and their descendants may be hanging around today.
It is not curious, that Dragon lore and legend is common to all early cultures? How could it be possible for such a unique creature to arise spontaneously in diverse and widely separated communities, unless the creature was not mythical at all. Dragons existed at one time pretty much globally. After all, "here be dinosaurs", was once true of the entire planet. Dragons in fact may have been one of the animals in the dinosaur family.
The dragon Zu, was very naughty, ripping off the Tablets of Law by which universal order was maintained. He was later napped by Ninurta, the sun god and wasted, just in the nick of time, too. Because without those Law Tablets the planet was returning rapidly to primordial chaos, oh my. This is sort of a somewhat different take on serpent/dragons of the biblical Genesis account with Eve being bested by the highly intelligence and shifty serpent/dragon, tricked into munching a golden delicious, and with the Golden age of man ending.
This Dragon is pictured in beautiful golden tiles lining the processional way into the city of Babylon. What makes this interesting is that lions, bulls and dragons are all depicted life-size.This dragon is shown to be similar in size to a bull. Giving credence to the idea, that the Babylonians believed this a real creature.
The dragon and serpent in legend and myth had similar characteristics, both could fly both had amazing powers. One of the most fascinating dragon types, and best known, are of Chinese and Japanese legend. Actually the Chinese have 3 dragon types and the Japanese 9. The most well known is the fire breathing type. These cultures tended to glorify dragons since they symbolized virtue and power. These dragon related to the elements, like water, fire and air.
The "Knucker" is the swamp dragon of England, with one are more heads, it belches flames of venom. It holds in common with most other dragons this ability to torch people and stuff, but differs for Asian dragons in that his reputation is way bad, not your typical Star Buck's dating material.
Is Nessie, this most constantly sighted creature of lock nest, really one of the last surviving member of this English swamp dragon family? Maybe dragons never really disappeared at all, they are simply camera shy, and really very timid creatures. There reputations as bad guys, just so much PR hype.
Currently, the best documented sightings of dragons have been taking place in a lake in the Changbai mountains, in northeastern Jilin province of china. Local government officials caught sight of a school, of as many as 20 dragons, swimming through this lake. This is China's version of the "Loch Ness Monster", the legendary "Lake Tianchi Monster", with sightings dating back a century. The Chinese government is not dismissing these sighting, but has an on going investigation to discover what's happening here.
These creatures all have a surprising similarities to the dragons of myth, and legend. From all accounts, these monsters don't act so nasty really. And the stories of old, of brave knights slaying dragons seem to be very plausible. Because, far from being at risk to be killed and eaten, a warriors biggest problem was catching,.... those chicken-hearted weenies.
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More commentsnice read, interesting stuff, I've never read before.
This makes a lot of sense and i do believe in dragons too.
Interesting topic. Reaching a bit, but interesting.
now threre has 2 b no doubt...after the show on discovery channel
I already knew they were real, dragons are like, the coolest, EVER!!! this is very reasuring that dragons were and are living around the world. If they don't exist I don't either (thats just an expression)
I think you are on a good path and you need to stay on that path. Drangons R real 4 real
I personally agree. how could threre be stories of dragons all over the world and people still dont believe in them.. they could be extinct and their bones couldn't fozzilize possiblywhat do you mean by thatUnbelievably old comment but still.What Courtney means by "stories of dragons all over the world" is how most countries, regions and cultures have myths or lores about dragons. A good example is the European dragon and Chinese dragons. Europe and China are two places quite far from each other but they both have myths and tales about dragons, regardless of how different the accounts are.In theory, a 'dragon' myth shouldn't be so widespread if they didn't exist.
i sometimes think they are a myth and other times i think they are real and i also like your article.
dragons are real or not !
Dragons are definately real! I've thought this for a while, actually. Call me strange... whatever. By ye way, they're not "chicken-hearted weenies'" rather, they prefer not to draw attention to themselves.
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