Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Myth of the Great Dragon Flying

Dragon is mentioned in many ancient cultures around the world, however, is still present to this day both in the popular memory and in films, novels and video games.

Dragon of mythical creatures that have the form Avawanaa or similar Balzuahv and varying qualities depending on the diverse cultures, but the most famous dragon is the European who has wings normally and connected by the evil and the devil and the Chinese dragon which resembles a python and a symbol of wisdom, says myths again that it objects emit fire from her mouth or toxic organisms, some of the myths and tells the eggs and multiply it with the body covered with scales or feathers.

 Tells the number clay Sumerian city of Ur, back to 2000 BC that the God of heaven is Banbat willow tree on the banks of the Tigris River in the city of Ork Having grown tree has taken a dragon at its roots beta, while the adopted bird frightening of its branches a nest to him but in the trunk the tree itself was a living demon Lilith, and when he heard (Gilgamesh) Ork King for that tree carrying his shield and his sword and killed the dragon and uprooted the tree from the root of the Lilith ran away into the wilderness seems to be willow tree for Lilith Kaltaput of vampires.

Mentioned the dragon in many places of the Bible both the Old and New, as we find in Genesis that dragons, like other creatures: "21 So God created great whales and every animate selves live tank that overflowed with water, kind, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good. "(Genesis - sanitation 1)

Oyatan was originally a frightening beast in the Phoenician legends, and his name means "twisted on itself," then moved to the Canaanite mythology embodied in the person, "Le Temps" the beast with seven heads and go to someone Tiamat Tiamat in Mesopotamian mythology. Which is in the Old Testament of the Bible is the dragon that Barah God Jehovah Yahweh, as it spews smoke from the nostrils and fire from his mouth, a giant sea monster here

In the New Testament Revelation mentioned a dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns as a sign of the approaching end of the world or the signs of time, as this monster embodies the devil in the end, the decisive battle between good and evil.

Returns the first mention of the dragon in Greek civilization to the Iliad, where the description of Agamemnon that he has a dragon blue on the belt of his sword and symbol of a dragon a three-heads on the shield worn on the chest, and the Dragon means in the language Greek "that which sees," or "that which flashes" (possibly in reference to Hrashvh reflective light).

In the year 217 AD in India Velostratosltinayn discussed in "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana in the Loeb Classical Library translation said that the fangs of the dragon-like feet of the large pigs, but the highest and twisted and jagged teeth like a shark

 Mentioned the dragon in the book of the Arabic language: "the dragon variety of snakes of the greatest of the largest where it is, perhaps sent by God Almighty cloud Vaanmmelth, in what is said, God knows, that the animals of the sea and complained to God Verwah it, said Abu Mansour, told me Sheikh of trustworthy invaders that he was coming down the sword Bahr al-Sham, and he looked he and a group people of the military to the cloud was divided into the sea then rose, and we look at the fault of the dragon disturbed in Hedb the cloud, and endowed by the wind and we consider them to be absent cloud from our eyes. According to some news: the cloud with the dragon to the land of Gog and Magog Vttrha them, and they gather on flesh Faoklonh. "

Dragon often symbolizes the forces of evil in the legends overlapping between the European cultures in Europe, and although the dragons wings like bat wings, but they are generally hidden in caves under the ground, making it the object of an old earth element. As the perception in some cases, to have eyes large or guarding treasures with great care and this is due out naming Dragon English-any "seeing clearly", and some of the myths imaginable with a row of dorsal fins, and can have a dragon of a number variable of the legs vary from nothing to four or more so when it comes to early European literature.

Means Darcul Drakul dragon in Romanian the word Darcula Dracula it means I'm the Dragon is the title of Prince Vlad Vlad, who ruled the emirate in the territory of Romania the current so-called "Valakhia" in the mid-fifteenth century when he inherited power from his father, nicknamed the Dragon and on this basis is called the son of the dragon or "Dracula" and precedes the word "Dracula" word "formed" refers to that prince. Well Vlad is another title called "Impaler" Impaler he was known for brutality and wrath in the torture of its prisoners. This example illustrates the impact of the idea of ​​dragons in European heritage.

Vedic religion in the first, the Vitra asura is a devil who is also a snake-like dragon creature, which is a drought and enemy of Indra the god of war and weather, Vitra is also known in the Vedas as the "snake" and said that he has three heads.

Often have dragons spiritual significance of great in different religions and cultures prevalent in Asian cultures, and in some cultures still considered representative of the fundamental forces of nature and religion and the universe, also link him with wisdom and is often said to be wiser than humans, and longevity, and said to them, usually they have the form forms of magic power or supernatural powers, and are often associated with wells, rain, rivers, and in some cultures, dragons are able to speak like humans.

And Battabr Dragon of monsters that draw the mythology, and statues that are almost the incredible and there in the South China believes in the existence of dragons in their religious beliefs has been said in the ancient myths that the dragon symbol of the strength he had the power has no limits, his skin, the heart is capable of flying at speeds Zmejrth raise terror, has been nicknamed Champions Kung Fu in China Baltnanin.

Chinese legend says that he can China and Eastern dragons generally take the form of rights, are usually the best, whereas European dragons are usually malevolent though there are some exceptions (the red dragon of Wales is one of those exceptions). There are some Eastern malevolent dragons in mythology and Persian, and Russian, for example.

And the dragon especially popular in China, Valtnin with claws to symbolize the five emperors of China with the phoenix a symbol of the Empress of China, and Ozaar worn by Dragon and driven many people are common in the Chinese festivals.

 So the dragon symbolizes in Eastern cultures to the wisdom and strength and optimistic by the Chinese so that they have years Dragon, Dragon Tower, as well as in their calendar astronomer.

Integrate the Japanese myths of dragons local legends with stories coming from China, Korea and India, and like other Asian dragons, the dragons are the gods of the Japanese water-related rainfall and water bodies, and usually described as a large serpentine creatures, without wings, feet with claws. Gould has written (1896:248) that the Japanese dragon has three claws.

Described as the dragon is usually that the body is very similar to a lizard huge, or a snake has a couple of feet of lizards and a fire-breathing from his mouth, but there is no evidence from archeology supports the existence of objects, a giant of the genus reptiles spouting fire since the beginning of human existence on this earth, as the another giant reptiles or dinosaurs extinct since 64 million years after it dominated the planet.

Overall Nbarzalosatir of some truth and then marred by exaggerated descriptions and tell fairy tales about, and probably some that the origin of the dragon in the stories may be due to the type of reptiles living in the jungle islands of Indonesia, so they called Komodo dragon (shown in the picture) and is so called because of their size and where the length is observed between him and the semi-mythical dragons and perhaps also the presence of other reptiles or undiscovered role in the genesis of a legend already.

As for the European dragon has bat wings is on his back without front legs, and after the discovery of how the Alterousoura (extinct winged reptile) walk on the ground filmed some of the dragons without front legs with wings instead.

The Dragon and the known animal that appears in the drawings to represent the devil or the forces hostile to the Church and the faithful, what is this monster? Was he already lived in an era of time and become extinct like the dinosaurs? Or is it mythical animal that does not exist imagined by artists to portray the forces of evil?!

Overall a majority of researchers to consider the dragon a mythical creature mythical does not exist only in legends irrigated and the different symbolism, while others allege that the animal is real, a kind of reptiles warm-blooded, which can control the degree of their body heat internally, as in dinosaurs extinct on Unlike reptiles current Kaltmessah, snakes and lizards are cold blooded, this property allows an animal dragon adaptation to different climate conditions in winter and summer, either morning or evening, is the dragon of the animals lived it up-old to 500 years, according to the legend, but some studies have shown there are dragons that lived for two thousand years, but there is no evidence that the dragon died due to old age, but he died because of either accidents or B is rife, or because of rights.

In fact, the reason that led researchers to study whether the dragon animal, mythical or real is the prevalence of the terrible, who enjoys the dragon in the world from east to west, which is not without a culture of a story about a dragon that monster terrible blood that spews fire from his mouth, even in the Church there is a picture of St. George the dragon spear stab, and known as the science or study of dragons Drajunologi

Say the skeptics that the creature dragon legend is simply a creature of the creatures that abound in fairy tales, like what we see in objects legendary another as the Hydra or Alioune Korn Unicorn (HP century and one at the forehead) or Jerjonat (Kalmaydosa, body woman, her hair of snakes and guilt anguine) or it may be the type of extinct creatures, but the ancients had exaggerated in the recipe and made his wings and claimed that he spews fire from his mouth for telling stories and anecdotes about this creature.

As usual, the researchers who were impressed by these stories and anecdotes and they took are looking for a glimmer of hope in order to verify the existence of this creature, but skeptics argue that there is no hope for this mythical animal that has not been mentioned only in legends.

         

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