Myths are not stories that are untrue. Rather they are tales that don’t fit neatly into the historical record which serve as a foundation for a culture like a demon slayer hashira names. Gather around the campfire math lovers you know your screens because today we’re going to try a little thought experiment.
When I say the word dragon, what do you think of you probably picture, a serpent-like creature with clawed feet that flies and has a long horse-like face? But some of you may be thinking of a terrifying monster and others as an auspicious sign of good luck. So where do these disparate myths about dragons come from?
Nearly every civilization on earth has tripped up a creature. We might call it to drag from the Babylonian, most kosher with that snake-like body and lion-like loss to the Egyptian serpent caught 8 pap. The enemy of raw who tries to cast the sun from the sky. Also, check- spiritual weapon 5e
Dragons, since Civilizations
Dragons have been with us since the dawn of civilization, though in fact they actually pre-date what we often call civilization. For even older dragons can be found in the jade carvings and the neolithic pottery of China gets colossal. The feathered serpent of Aztec fate, was the dragon of Meso America centuries before European sales appeared on their shores and the rainbow serpent in aboriginal Australian faith is perhaps the oldest continuously venerated deity in the world.
Dragons as Serpants
From the world serpent a Viking myth to the venerable Japanese dragon. There’s almost no part of the globe where we don’t find dragon-like creatures. They appear in some of our earliest myths, they’re one of the first things, we as a species ever dreamt up either to frighten us or to protect us, to nurture the world or destroy it. But why 50 a phobia or fear of snakes might be one reason. It’s been shown that human beings have a biological reaction to service and our fear of them is out of his stick and primal. It exists deep below our conscious level in our amygdala.
The show was a snake and our internal alarm system starts to go off. It’s why even if you aren’t afraid of snakes you might have felt your skin start to crawl or get that tiny goosebump feeling Brooklyn. You are armed when you see one or feel one when slithering over you but let’s face it.
A lot of folks are afraid of snakes. In fact, it’s the single most commonly reported phobia statistically more than a third of you, right now have some fear of snakes. So with this ancient primal urge, it makes sense we create powerful creatures or deities out of service lifts conform to manifestations of our subconscious, and here’s one of our strongest subconscious triggers but there are other interesting answers.
Different Features of Dragons
Let’s look at some of the distinguishing features of the dragon. A surprising number of cultures give the dragon and all nonserpentine hats to the horse. Like the head of the dragons of western Europe to the cable like the head of the dragons of China. We often get a facial structure on these beings wholly unlike. what we think about a snake and a dragon are just manifestations of our fears. Why not just adopt the image whole hog you know service.
Well, there’s one theory that says it was dinosaurs more accurately than it was fossils as people around the world stumbled on the bones of these giant creatures. They naturally imagined what beings they might have come from and did not know what parts went. Where it’s easy to see Stegosaurus plates as huge scales or look at a Triceratops skull and start giving things all manner of normal horns plus early people not necessarily realizing that sometimes they’d see piles of bones from several different animals bait string together a fanciful creation.
Even putting multiple heads on things like the dragons from Slavic myth or the famous hydra and there’s even some argument though it’s more of a hypothesis than anything remotely conclusive that the different fossils around the world also help account for the variations in brackets.
Hello again take that with a grain of salt because it seems like there’s just as much if not more evidence against that idea as for it.
Northern Europe
Another theory though favors our own predilection for telling tall tales in a few go-rounds the campfire it’s easy for that crocodile that almost got you to go from being 10 feet long to being 30 sprouting wings and breeding flames but of course this is one of those hypotheses but feel right but will never really be able to verify. For short next, there’s whales a number of dragons especially across northern Europe and Asia are associated with water. A single well leap could almost seem like flight and seeing away at lunch a geyser as it surfaces for air could easily lead the imagination to the idea.
It might be able to breathe all sorts of elements in an explosive torrent interestingly though wherever they came from all of us around the globe interpret them in different ways. In western Europe, dragons are often seen as evil and even use that Allah. Glories for demons or the devil after Christianity became the dominant religion while in China dragons were seen as wise and benevolent a symbol of good luck strength and prosperity of course, these different reads on dragons directly affect our myths about them.
For in Europe stories of all about heroes slaying dragons while in China stories were created about heroes descending from them or seeking them out to get their help.
Now, this next part is only my own personal pet theory but I think this was at least a little bit dear I say political. Politics in minutes well now they’ve ruined everything. In ancient Greece in medieval Europe where society is this unified, you get a lot of dragon stories.
Roman Period
However, in the Roman period, you don’t get as many. So to me, these are the cuts in that chaotic world of local politics. He was a politician want to symbolize a dangerous enemy that will ravage the countryside. Something that only a strong leader and their heroic retinue can defend you from but in reality, you of course don’t want anything but could imply.
China
There were things out in the world that the state couldn’t handle and in China with the long. Their version of the dragon things went even a step further by associating the dragon with wisdom and might well use and then associating the imperial house with the dragon a mid-cycle was created. That reinforce the social order and helped encourage the idea of a wise and benevolent ruler.
Now I get that’s wild speculation and in fact I’m not even 100 percent sure if I believe it but it’s always interesting to think of me. It’s not just on their own but as a product of the societies that they came from what I find hard to believe is how these dragons could exist at all within the rules of physics and biology.
Hey, who is Leon from an editor at my campfire well good thing I brought extra animated marshmallows? Listen I’m so glad you’re here because I was just thinking how some dragons throughout history might be considered more plausible than others exactly.
Conclusion
In fact, we could probably rank them by most realistic I mean Dragonite isn’t going anywhere with these tiny wings true plus I’ve never heard of a flying animal as giant as Drogon. Oh man, now I’m thinking of so many pop culture dragons. Let’s head over to the minute earth channel and rank them to lead the way good Sir and so we could you please make Williams marshmallows to go. Yeah nice and crispy. Legendary thanks to patron sky over control and a messy up.
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