Are Dragons Real?

Please read notes and comments first as it may answer your question. I have been bombarded by this question lately. The flying, fire breathing reptile that has been manifested by mankind is not real. Pterosaur or Pterodactyl could have manifested in dreams or visions in the days of old and created a lot of these beliefs or superstitions as well.

In his 1982 book, The Encyclopedia of Monsters, Daniel Cohen traced the word draco to ancient Latin. To the Romans this word referred to any giant snake, such as a python from India or Africa. This usage was enshrined by the naturalist Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, wherein he based his description upon travellers' tales and thus exaggerated the size of these snakes. Pliny's work became a standard reference for centuries to follow.

The dragon myth was further established by the King James Bible, which uses the words "serpent", "dragon" and "Devil" in a fairly interchangeable manner. Including dragons in the Holy Bible cemented their existence as widely-accepted fact, but it also laid the groundwork for the dragon as a "supernatural" monster rather than merely an oversized snake. Cohen suggests that the dragon's other distinguishing attributes, ". . . the legs, the wings, the ability to breath fire . . . seem to have been added bit by bit over the centuries by people who thought that a simple snake, no matter how large, was not a sufficient symbol of pure evil."

Cohen takes care to note that the western dragon myth and the oriental lung or lóng have quite different characteristics and origins, and these did not become conflated together under the "dragon" name until relatively recent times. Likewise, he dismissed any connection between dinosaurs and dragons as a modern contrivance, although acknowledging that fossilized bones of various extinct animals may have helped foster the oriental dragon myth.

Carl Sagan hypothesized in his 1977 book The Dragons of Eden that the myth of dragons arose from the innate fear of reptiles that we share with other mammals, a remnant of the time when mammals lived with dinosaurs.

Dinosaur and mammalian fossils were occasionally mistaken for the bones of dragons and other mythological creature; for example, a discovery in 300 B.C. in Wucheng, Sichuan, China, was labeled as such by Chang Qu. Adrienne Mayor has written on the subject of fossils as the inspiration for myths in her book The First Fossil Hunters, and in an entry in the Encyclopedia of Geology she wrote: "Fossil remains generated a variety of geomyths speculating on the creatures identity and cause of their destruction. Many ancient cultures, from China and India to Greece, America, and Australia, told tales of dragons, monsters, and giant heroes to account for fossils of animals they had never seen alive."

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• Pterosaur
• Pterodactyl
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• Reptilian

[gnrfansfan]

well if dragons might not be evil if thay are real and thay might just be afraid

[atomarane]

@gnrfansfan - read the video notes. They are mythological creatures which means made up creatures from the imagination of people over the years - just as Disney and others make up creatures today. Humans have vivid imaginations but not everything we imagine is or was a living creature with a mind of their own.

[simplelee92]

@atomarane Very interesting. It could be a miss interpretation. I heard they found a dragon (dead of course) in a cave, in china.

[atomarane]

@simplelee92 - check again - it was discovered by scientist that they were plant eating dinosaur bones that were found.

[atomarane]

@boticelli888 - I know it sucks don't it? ;)

[boticelli888]

Wait....the Easter Bunny isn't real?

[gnrfansfan]

@atomarane true

[atomarane]

@sonbuhitsunei - thanks for the suggestion but we were not talking about planets light years away. We were talking about what imaginations have created on this planet.

PS - my guides said not there either. Just a thought, you might ask your guides to check it out too. ;)

[sonbuhitsunei]

@desiremyvids You can't prove that;) Lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking! For all we know, there could be creatures exactly like the dragons of legend on some planet light years from here! ;) Just a thought!

[atomarane]

@desiremyvids - at least not the kind mention in this video and my description. ;)

[desiremyvids]

as we know people believe what they want to believe there are no such things as dragons

[atomarane]

@IndigoCat17 - but those don't fly and breathe fire or ice either. ;)