The ancient, original "dragon" legends must have come from memories of dinosaurs. Scientists agree that legends are almost always based on facts, not just pure imagination. It cannot be an accident that so many separate peoples of the world tell such stories.
"Dragon" legends and pictures can be found in Africa, India, Europe, the Middle East, the Orient and every other part of the world. Dinosaur-like animals have been drawn, written about and told about since the beginning of recorded history.
Dragon. Copyright 1994 by George Barr. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission. Sometimes people in olden times made up scary or funny stories about these animals. This made the "dragons" and their hunters seem more special. Some of the stories really got wild and crazy.
Most of the dragon legends are full of exaggeration, magic and marvelous deeds. But this is not true of all of them. Many stories seem rather believable.
Did some of these storytellers see live dinosaurs? Which stories are based on real encounters? And which are merely fairy tales based on the stories of others? Will anyone ever know for sure?
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Nope, people have found dinosaur bones and fossils for millennia. And they attributed these to dragons. And studyin migration patterns it has been shown time and again that people encountered one another time and again and no doubt passed on their legends.
So your mind just glamourizes everything you dream up and then you trick yourself into thinking it was real, because it seems "cool".
"Scientists agree that legends are almost always based on facts, not just pure imagination." are just pure imagination.
Is Paul saying he thinks there really was a Thor, Odin, Zeus, Aphrodite, Mars and Pluto? That this really is the 'fifth world' as the Mayan stories say, and that the sixth world will start (and this one end), in 2012?
Or is he saying that where a story can be twisted to fit his personal mythology it is based on fact, where one contradicts it, it is pure imagination?
Place your bets...
It's a well-known fact that there have been dragons, err, DINOSAURS spotted in England as recently as 1994. Interestingly enough, the specimen that was spotted was chasing what appeared to be a bespectacled teenager flying on a broomstick.
"Most of the dragon legends are full of exaggeration, magic and marvelous deeds. But this is not true of all of them. Many stories seem rather believable."That some authors could write dragon stories that are "rather believable" is not surprising, nor does it in anyway support the existance of dragons. I could write convincing stories about my older brothers and their pet hippos, but it would be complete fiction.
Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic
I've heard an idea once that dragons were mainly a combination of big cats, snakes, and something else, all of which were generally considered natural threats to the human population. The early concept of a "dragon" was actually more like a giant snake than anything else, in fact, with the claws added later. Fossils of ancient reptiles probably contributed to the already-established legends in several ways, but these creatures had already died out millions of years before the first humans.
Oh, the universal dragon myths are fascinating, and I do think that they *are* based on some type of genetic "memory" (instinctive self-protection involving some fear of our predator's attacks)....
Besides, this guy completely disregards that people didn´t agree on what dragons were like. In Europe, they spitted fire from the twelfth century onwards, altough the premises of this theory could be traced back to the Greek Myth of the Chimera. In any case, they´re invoking their fears with one of the most common destructive elements in nature, fire. In China, however, unlike in Europe, the dragon, as well as bening, was a mixture of several creatures, not just a giant lizard or snake. And it´s possible that dragon was a translation of a Chinese concept which has nothing to do with the European one. The fact is that, nonetheless, they don´t find it that hard to agree how rats, snakes, flies or birds are like, no matter if you´re in China or in Europe. That is the proof that dragons, if existed, were not dinosaurs and more importantly, were more a mythological figure than a real one.
B-but! A guy with a guitar on YouTube... He told me Behemoth was a dinosaur.Somewhere in the middle. He starts his song at about 3:10,
and, here's a quick lookup to a bunch of the passages he cites from BibleGateway .
Relevant Bible Passages
I don't collect Bibles in my spare time, nor do I study them. However, the website gives the impression of scholarship behind it. Though, it should be noted, I'm of the gullible sort.
Ok, dinosaur bones are all over the world. People all over the world find dinosaur bones and think "woah... there must be something big hanging around out there...and it kind of looks like the lizard we had for breakfast yesterday." Not quite sure where the flying bit came from, but then again, we do have incredible imaginations as a species.
The word dragon means serpent. Google it.
A.dragon, serpent, Il.11.39, al.; interchangeable with ?f??, 12.202, 208, cf. Hes. Th.322, 825, Pi.N.1.40, A.Th.292 (lyr.); “?et?? ?a? d. p???µ?a” Arist.HA609a4; perh. a water-snake, ib.602b25.
Confused?
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