Dragons ni-exist saunang panahon?

[Silver_Surfer]

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Dragons and Their Astronomical History


A legendary monster usually conceived as a huge, bat-winged, fire-breathing, scaly lizard or snake with a barbed tail. The belief in these creatures apparently arose without the slightest knowledge on the part of the ancients of the gigantic, prehistoric, dragon-like reptiles. In Greece the word drakon, from which the
English word was derived, was used originally for any large serpent, and the dragon of mythology, whatever shape it later assumed, remained essentially a snake.

In general, in the Middle Eastern world, where snakes are large and deadly, the serpent or dragon was symbolic of the principle of evil. Thus, the Egyptian god Apepi, for example, was the great serpent of the world of darkness. But the Greeks and Romans, though accepting the Middle Eastern idea of the serpent as an evil power, also at times conceived the drakontes as beneficent powers--sharp-eyed dwellers in the inner parts of the Earth. On the whole, however, the evil reputation of dragons was the stronger, and in Europe it outlived the other. Christianity confused the ancient benevolent and malevolent serpent deities in a common condemnation. In Christian art the dragon came to be symbolic of sin and paganism and, as such, was depicted prostrate beneath the heels of saints and martyrs.

The dragon's form varied from the earliest times. The Chaldean dragon Tiamat had four legs, a scaly body, and wings, whereas the biblical dragon of Revelation, "the old serpent," was many-headed like the Greek Hydra. Because they not only possessed both protective and terror-inspiring qualitiesbut also had decorative effigies, dragons were early used as warlike emblems. Thus, in the Iliad, King Agamemnon had on his shield a blue three-headed snake, just as the Norse warriors in later times painted dragons on their shields and carved dragons' heads on the prows of their ships. In England before the Norman Conquest, the dragon was chief among the royal ensigns in war, having been instituted as such by Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur. In the 20th century the dragon was officially incorporated in the armorial bearings of the prince of Wales.

In the Far East, the dragon managed to retain its prestige and is known as a beneficent creature. The Chinese dragon, lung, represented yang, the principle of heaven, activity, and maleness in the yin-yang of Chinese cosmology. From ancient times, it was the emblem of the Imperial family, and until the founding of the republic (1911) the dragon adorned the Chinese flag. The dragon came to Japan with much of the rest of Chinese culture, and there (as ryu or tatsu) it became capable of changing its size at will, even to the point of becoming invisible.Both Chinese and Japanese dragons, though regarded as powers of the air, are usually wingless. They are among the deified forces of nature in Taoism.

The term dragon has no zoological meaning, but it has been applied in the Latin generic name Draco to a number of species of small lizards found in the Indo-Malayan region. The name is also popularly applied to the giant monitor, Varanus komodoensis, discovered on Komodo, in Indonesia.

[rcruman]

I think dragon are describe as beast or huge creature.
Pero ang dragon karon kay gihimong KAPE og KATOL , hehehehehe (funny side).

Peace!

[zvike005]

Basta ako nahibaw-an, ang dragons, imagination rani derived gikan sa flying reptiles sa unang panahon.

[mata_hari]

tinuod na naa flying reptiles...

pero dragons like those we've seen on the movies do not exist

komodo dragon ra ang pinaka tinuod.

[Pinkdimensions]

tinuod lagi.. naa gud komodo dragon ambot ug maka lupad bana sila sa una hihih.. darwinistic approach daw atong gamiton basin ma explain or matrace nato nga maka lupad na sila..hihih

[mata_hari]

kung darwinistic approach ato gamiton... a size of a t-rex or lochness with wings? hhhmmm could an animal like that exist during jurassic period? in my own opinion dili feasible. it would be better for them to lose that wings then hunt their preys on foot.

[Pinkdimensions]

hasol man gud ning dragon hisgutan daghan ug version.. lisod emaginon..

[mata_hari]

imagina nalang tong dragon katonng naa sa Eragon, Dungeons and Dragons, Reign of Fire mao na ako gi mean...katong murag t-rex ug nawong unya mobugwak ug kayo.

[Pinkdimensions]

kita lagi ko sa national geo..lahi man ug dagway.. maong galibug ko.. daghan ug version .. klase2x kada nasod..saon mana nimo??

[Cherokee]

In ancient times, they don't have a word yet for dinosaurs, so they call them dragons. Men's imagination and curiosity have invented the present-day dragon as having wings and breathed out fire which is but a myth as we all know now. What they saw then are but a few surviving dinosaurs that might have evolved or mutated to have survived that long and hunted to extinction by ancient peoples for food.